Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation ...

A team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), has uncovered an unexpected and intricate network of tangled, supersonic filaments within a ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de Astrobiología, part of ...

The HI 21 cm data show that G165's WNM is not calm or featureless, as once assumed based on observations in the denser Galactic plane. Instead, it's supersonic and highly structured A team of ...

Scientists report the first confirmed detection of thiepine, a complex sulfur-bearing molecule, in an interstellar cloud near the Milky Way’s center.

Researchers may have figured out how a crucial ingredient that cells need to produce energy could form in deep space. Calculations and lab experiments suggest that glyceric acid can arise from ...

The discovery marks the first time a molecular cloud has been detected using light emitted in the far-ultraviolet spectrum. “This opens up new possibilities for studying the molecular universe,” said ...

Galactic gas shows varying heavy element distribution: blue indicates scarcity, red indicates richness. Credit: T. Hayakawa/Y. Fukui, Nagoya University Galactic gas shows varying heavy element ...