NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly components—gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the interstellar medium.

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope. This map will teach ...

The prevailing model for planetary accretion assumes that the solar system's planets formed in an extremely hot, two-dimensional disk of gas and dust, post-dating the sun. Scientists now propose a ...

McCallum et al (2025) "There has never been a model of the distribution of the ... approximation of what these clouds would ...

The building blocks of new planets could form more easily than previously thought, according to calculations by a team led by a RIKEN astrophysicist. Astronomers are still figuring out exactly how ...

Most hobby 3D printers are based on FDM, extruding a single-color noodle of melted plastic to build up an object. Powder-based inkjet 3D printing allows you to print detailed, full-color models from a ...

Although these days it would seem that everyone and their pets are running 3D printers to churn out all the models and ...

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of merging galaxies II ZW 96. The merger is located 500 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Delphinus. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, ...