Sun was formed in a swirling cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula. In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal ...

Jupiter and Mars shine in the evening, more planets gather in the morning, and the Eta Aquariid meteors join in.

A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

That’s us.’ From Pale Blue Dot (1994) by Carl Sagan. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech But what, exactly, should we make of ...

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

Stars are born in families before dispersing, but we have never seen one that has broken up anything like this fast.

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...