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

The National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a stunning glimpse into the 'dark nebula' known as the Circinus ...

Eos may never form stars—but it’s offering a new way to see the invisible parts of our galaxy. 4.5 billion years ago the Sun ...

Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary chemistry and ...

The scientists made a computer model of the solar nebula—the disk of gas and dust from which the Sun and planets formed 4.6 billion years ago. The primordial debris included icy grains ...

Circinus West is a cold, dense cloud of gas and dust that stretches out for 180 light-years, around 60 times the size of our solar system ... Despite being a "dark nebula," the Circinus West ...

But it’s surely the most scientifically significant, a rich fund of information about the evolution of the gas and dust cloud—the solar nebula—that coalesced into the Sun and planets.

New research challenges the meteorite hypothesis, suggesting Earth's water may be native, originating from the solar nebula rather than asteroidal impacts.

For the case of Neptune, whose mean distance is thirty times that of the earth from the sun, the solar nebula when reaching to that distance will rotate in 25.3 days (30 X 23,445 )' 109.5 ...

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the ...