The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

Check out an amazing view of star cluster NGC 602. It "lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to the ...

If these electrons and positrons pass through a thunderstorm cloud, the ionized trails they leave along their path would act as channels of lower air resistance, allowing electric charge to flow more ...

Both were misaligned with the cloud's electric field, suggesting that there was something else at work here. A diagram of the +FD/-FD sequence. The +FD (red dashed arrow) starts at the cosmic ray ...

Today, we know that M44 contains about 1,000 gravitationally bound stars, and that it’s about 577 light-years away from Earth ...

Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

For centuries, gold’s celestial origins remained one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. Now, a ground-breaking study has ...

The mystery of where the precious metal gold came from in the Universe may finally have been solved as Nasa finally has some ...

Now, researchers led by Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a bold new idea: that stars collapsing into black holes ...

Although our universe is mostly normal matter, antimatter isn’t so hard to create — supernovae, black holes, and even bananas ...