Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...