interstellar medium
Astronomers Find the Source of the Huge Bubbles of Gas Flowing Out of the Milky Way, Still No Idea What Caused Them
There's an unusual paradox hampering research into parts of the Milky Way. Dense gas blocks observations of the galactic core,…
What Voyager 2 Learned After Spending a Year in Interstellar Space
Only two of humanity's spacecraft have left the Solar System: NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 1 left the…
Hubble Finds Buckyballs in Space
Scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope have found a very complex molecule out there in space. Called Buckyballs, after…
Voyager and Pioneer’s Grand Tour of the Milky Way
A new study takes a look at where the Voyager and Pioneer probes might one day venture to as they…
Could Magnetic Sails Slow an Interstellar Spacecraft Enough?
A new study by Professor Claudius Gros - who proposed The Genesis Project - indicates how magnetic sails could be…
NASA Voyager Probes Still Going Strong After 40 Years
The Voyager probes, humanity's longest-running and farthest-reaching missions, are celebrating their 40th anniversaries this summer!
What Will the Voyager Spacecraft Encounter Next? Hubble Helps Provide a Roadmap
The twin Voyager spacecraft are now making their way through the interstellar medium. Even though they are going where none…
IBEX Captures ‘Alien’ Material From Beyond Our Solar System
[/caption] If we could board the starship Enterprise-D and were able to look through Giordi LaForge's visor we might be…
Did A Supernova Shape Our Solar System?
[/caption] Away in space some 4.57 billion years ago, in a galaxy yet to be called the Milky Way, a…
Ultraluminous Gamma Ray Burst 080607 – A “Monster in the Dark”
[/caption] Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic phenomena astronomers regularly observe. These events are triggered by massive…