The cloud contains enough dusty material to completely block the visible light from background stars. Particularly dense molecular clouds, like LDN 483, qualify as dark nebulae because of this ...

The cloud contains enough dusty material to completely block the visible light from background stars. Particularly dense molecular clouds, like LDN 483, qualify as dark nebulae because of this ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

Here we use sensitive near-infrared measurements of the light from background stars as it is absorbed and scattered by trace amounts of dust to probe the internal structure of the dark cloud ...

Hints of Oort clouds around other stars may lurk in the universe’s first light Searching the cosmic microwave background could reveal other giant spheres of icy debris ...

A family who watched tornado-looking clouds form behind their White Oak home sat down with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 to share their experience.

Newborn stars emerge from dark clouds in Taurus Date: February 15, 2012 Source: ESO Summary: A new image from the APEX telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten ...

An enormous cloud of dust and gas may bear the fingerprints of the first stars in the universe.

How are stars named? And what happens when they die? These star facts explain the science of the night sky.

The STARFORGE simulation follows a giant gas cloud as it collapses into new stars, accounting for all the phenomena thought to influence the outcome.