Laser-sail experiments test a route to nearby stars, while research reveals major barriers to interstellar missions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a silvery, circular probe in deep space. In May next year, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to capture minuscule ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. The research, led by a team of Cassini scientists primarily from Europe, is ...

Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 light-years from Earth, inside some of the densest clouds of gas and dust in the Milky Way, frozen water, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide coat countless tiny ...

Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star's surface, it punched through, ...

The intricate whorls and striations of dust that drift between the stars have just been revealed in stupefying detail. In new images from JWST, we're finally seeing exquisite details of the flow and ...

Of the many different kinds of stars, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, usually slightly larger and older than our own sun, are known producers of interstellar dust. Dusty AGBs are particularly ...

Interstellar dust constitutes only a small fraction of the mass in the interstellar medium, yet it exerts a profound influence on astrophysical processes. Grains composed of silicates, carbonaceous ...