A team of astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) discovered the cloud at the midpoint of a dust lane within the Milky Way’s central bar, approximately 23,000 light-years away.

BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way. This breakthrough will ...

The dust grains themselves are the building blocks for what will eventually become the solid bodies of planets like our Earth. In fact, within the interstellar medium of our galaxy, most of the ...

As a dust storm hits the area, firefighters spray water on a fire at the maintenance facilities of the public transportation service Sun Metro in El Paso, Texas. [AP Photo/Andres Leighton] On ...

Governor Gavin Newsom is facing criticism from LGBTQ+ advocates and Democratic lawmakers after seeming to say he doesn’t support transgender athletes participating in women's sports on his new ...

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To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) deactivated Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Feb. 25. On March 24 ...

Meanwhile, the telescopes will enable the public to view planets and nebulae, which are interstellar clouds of dust, often marking a star's birthplace. Piccadilly Un:Plugged is occurring during ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

DALLAS – A ferocious dust storm turned skies an eerie dark orange Tuesday afternoon over the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area. Wind gusts as strong as 60 mph have been recorded in the area as a ...

The dust storms, known as haboobs, and the high-speed wind gusts that fuel its movement made "travel hazardous" across the central and southern Plains on Monday afternoon, The National Weather ...