Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify two rare types of dust in the dwarf galaxy and chemically ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected metallic iron dust, silicon carbide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the nearby dwarf galaxy Sextans A, revealing early dust formation processes.

As it is typical in the month of June Saharan dust takes over much of the tropics. The deep layer of Saharan dust is currently located over the central Caribbean and is suppressing the chances for ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

UK astronomers using the 15-m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii have discovered enormous quantities of cosmic dust in the most distant quasar yet observed. The quasar, called SDSS J1148+5251 is ...