Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

Astronomers have discovered Eos, a massive molecular cloud, surprisingly close to Earth at just 300 light-years away. This ...

It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

Firefly petunias, genetically modified with bioluminescent mushroom DNA, glow in the dark. The glow ... the theory that the plant works like those solar lights in your yard that are charged ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

Behind the dark boundaries of the molecular cloud, a tapestry of distant stars emits an orange background glow. Related: Did ...

May it be rogue planets drifting alone in the dark or entire galaxies concealed ... the boundary of a massive cavity surrounding our solar system, known as the Local Bubble. What is a molecular ...