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

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary “These objects really look like asteroids in the images,” ...

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

It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

The dark cloud shown here stretches an estimated 180 light-years across, or more than 60 times wider than our solar system, ...

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

around 60 times the size of our solar system. Nebulas like this are so dense that light cannot pass through them, resulting in their dark, ink-like appearance and the fitting nickname "dark nebulas." ...

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

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

Scientists have uncovered a colossal, previously hidden hydrogen cloud, named Eos, just 300 light-years from Earth — the ...

Kira Traore says she was paying exactly zero dollars in electricity bills for her home in New Jersey — until late last year ...