Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) form an integral part of the interstellar medium, underpinning many of the unidentified infrared emission features observed throughout the Universe. Comprised ...

Research on heliospheric physics and interstellar medium dynamics has advanced our understanding of the complex interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar environment. The heliosphere – a ...

It is well known that phosphorus is essential to life’s existence. For this reason, there has been a continued interest in ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on the Interstellar Medium and Star and Planet Formation will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will ...

Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) -- the vast ocean of gas and charged ...

Scientists have detected a narrow structure of hot plasma extending from the Local Hot Bubble surrounding the Sun toward distant regions of the galaxy. The newly observed feature, described as a ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

It's the most extraordinary cosmic present any astronomer could wish for. Just six days before Christmas, an ancient traveller that has been careening through the interstellar medium of the Milky Way ...