Photonics researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and Kastler-Brossel Laboratory, France, have demonstrated how ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from “fluffy” molecular clouds.

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars. The post ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water. This ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful ...

Martian clouds are almost always made of dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. 95% of the planet's atmosphere is CO2.

The clouds, composed of carbon dioxide ice crystals, glow in shades of red, green, and pearlescent hues in the martian ...

While the sight is fascinating, scientists are still trying to understand why carbon dioxide ice clouds only form in specific ...