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Laboratory experiments performed at the Centre for Astrochemical Studies (CAS) of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Munich, together with astronomical observations ...

The small, icy visitor now racing away from the inner solar system is not just another comet. It is an interstellar object, ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an unexpectedly complex and dynamic filamentary network within a very-high-velocity cloud (VHVC) in the Milky Way. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

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Earth may have been exposed to interstellar clouds which may have changed the chemistry of the planet's atmosphere and led to the development of multiple ice ages, researchers suggest. Astrophysicists ...

Astronomers used observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to achieve the darkest ever view of a dense interstellar cloud. These observations have revealed the composition of a virtual ...

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 ...

The chemistry leading to life may start before stars are even born. In the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around a young star, astronomers have detected methanol. The disk is too warm for the ...

A multicolor image of interstellar clouds in the nearby Orion star-forming region. The earliest details of how our solar system formed from the collapse of a protostellar cloud and into a ...