Cosmic rays inside a dense molecular cloud were measured for the first time, helping scientists better understand how stars begin forming.

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has looked back in time to help explain the reionisation phase, which is one of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos. After a protracted era known as the cosmic ...

In 2002, when astronomers first detected cosmic gamma rays coming from the constellation Cygnus, they were surprised and perplexed. The region lacked the extreme electromagnetic fields that they ...

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all the ...

The light-year-long squiggle of gas and dust known as IRAS 20324+4057 has been compared to a caterpillar — and like a caterpillar, it's in the midst of a metamorphosis. What kind of stellar creature ...

Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of ...