Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

A brilliant cloud of gas shines beautifully 163,000 ... and are produced when supernovas explode, jostling the gas in their part of space and produce "cavities" in the gas, the ESO added.

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic death of a giant star, this cosmic cloud glows with energized gases and ...

The scientists made a computer model of the solar nebula—the disk of gas and dust from which the ... was infused with organic molecules fabricated in space. Additional organic compounds, he ...

Measurements taken by the James Webb Space Telescope show that its UV light has been able to cut through the gas clouds, surprising astronomers in the process. Dr Kevin Hainline is the co-author of ...

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search ...

The boundaries between planet Earth, the moon, and deep space ... outer fringes of our cozy planet's atmosphere stretch far beyond what is typically imagined. In fact, Earth's supply of hydrogen ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and ... the Hubble Space Telescope. The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy ...