The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers, who have uncovered a massive molecular cloud located just 300 ...

A mysterious structure has been discovered close to the Solar System as scientists rush to investigate its origin and ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets - in orbit around it. The Sun and ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our very own Milky Way. At an epic timescale "comparable to the age of the solar system," which is 4.6 billion years old ...

Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Astronomers finally spotted a previously 'invisible' object near our solar system when they realized it was actually glowing ...

Power purchase agreements (PPAs) offer a different approach to solar financing. With one, a solar provider installs and maintains the system on your property. You only pay for the electricity it ...

The Sun and its planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune The different planets have different properties and conditions. In general, as the distance from the ...