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 newly discovered comet named C/2025 V1, which some have compared to 3I/ATLAS, is due to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

The object, discovered by Gennady Borisov on November 2, 2025, quickly became the focus of speculation amid the curiosity ...

Here’s what Prof. Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, has to say.

Astrophysicists calculate the likelihood that Earth was exposed to cold, harsh interstellar clouds, a phenomenon not previously considered in geologic climate models. Around two million years ago, ...

Astronomers suggest this cold, dense cloud compressed our sun’s protective field between two and three million years ago, leaving the Earth exposed to cosmic material Christian Thorsberg Daily ...

In interstellar dust clouds, turbulence must first dissipate before a star can form through gravity. A German-French research team has now discovered that the kinetic energy of the turbulence comes to ...

Scientists believe Earth may have briefly lost protection from the sun around two million years ago, left to endure the extreme environment of interstellar space as the solar system passed through a ...

The Pleistocene Epoch—with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals—still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended a mere 12,000 years ago. Now, a team of researchers posit that ...

The world is coping with the effects of a warming climate, but a few thousand years ago, Earth had the opposite problem. During the Pleistocene Epoch, often called the Ice Age, Earth was subject to ...