The black hole examined by the team is no small cosmic object. It is more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Despite ...

Full casting and creative team have been announced for the UK premiere of Michinari Ozawa's award-winning Our Cosmic Dust, ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud of cosmic dust to reach our telescope? For accurate observations, astronomers need to know the amount of dust ...

Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud of cosmic dust to reach our telescope? For accurate observations, astronomers need to know the amount of ...

New JWST research unveils the surprising influence of strong magnetic fields on star formation within the Milky Way's central ...

Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud of cosmic dust to reach our telescope? For accurate observations, astronomers need to know the amount of ...

Both work with infrared wavelengths, meaning they can peer through blankets of cosmic dust and probe extremely distant parts of the universe that other visible-light instruments cannot ...

The astronomers created their map using 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, data from the LAMOST spectral survey, and machine learning. Dust causes distant astronomical objects to appear ...