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Surrounded by stardust: Antarctic ice cores confirm Earth is accumulating iron-60 from local interstellar cloud

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between the stars. On its path, Earth continuously accumulates i...

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Iron and Ice: Earth's Passage Through the Interstellar Cloud

Our Solar System is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between the stars. On its path, Earth continuously accumulates i...

Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of solar system's past

When you think of outer space, you're likely picturing stars, planets and moons. But much of space is filled with clouds of gas, plasma and stardust—known as interstellar clouds.

Stardust in the Ice: How Antarctic Cores Are Mapping Our Path Through the Galaxy

Three hundred kilograms of Antarctic ice, shipped from a freezer in Bremerhaven to a laboratory in Dresden, reduced by weeks of chemical processing to a few hundred milligrams of d...

Hubble survey sets up Roman's future look near Milky Way's center

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region h...

Astronomers reveal spectacular birthplace of cosmic buckyballs

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a hollow sphere), they're back with stunning images and r...

Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of Solar System's past

Iron-60 discovery in Antarctic ice reveals: Local Interstellar Cloud leaves its mark.

An Orbiting Satellite Triad Reveals Motions Inside Earth

Our planet's liquid iron outer core is slowly giving up its secrets to a trio of satellites launched by ESA in 2013. Called Swarm, the three probes have been studying Earth's magne...

How do you study something you can never step outside of?

An international team of astrophysicists has just released one of the largest cosmological datasets ever assembled. A mouthwatering 2.5 petabytes of simulated universe, freely avai...

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This Tiny World in the Outer Solar System Should Be Airless, but It Has an Atmosphere

A tiny world in our Solar System has an atmosphere it shouldn’t—hinting something dramatic happened there recently. A group of Japanese astronomers, including both professionals an...

Giant 'forbidden planet' orbiting small star shows an unusually low-metal atmosphere

Scientists have discovered that a highly unusual giant planet—sometimes called "forbidden"—could have an atmosphere with fewer heavier elements than its host star. University o...

The cosmos wears a galactic sombrero | Space photo of the day for April 29, 2026

The Sombrero galaxy's name fits perfectly.

Watch Artemis II's dramatic return to Earth at the Cosmosphere

The Orion spacecraft is expected to splashdown off the coast of San Diego shortly after seven tonight.

Sen. Moran touts Kansas' Cosmosphere on call with astronauts during their return to Earth

The Artemis II astronauts said they hope one day some artifact from their mission will be part of the Cosmosphere space museum in Hutchinson.

A tiny world beyond Neptune has an atmosphere that shouldn't exist

A team of professional and amateur Japanese astronomers have found evidence for a thin atmosphere around a small body in the outer solar system. The object is so small that it shou...

Cosmosphere campers will use VR program created at K-State Salina

The immersive virtual reality program "ISS Rupture Simulation" places participants onboard the International Space Station during a simulated emergency.

Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 3: Tiny Chemistry Labs

Two hydrogen atoms can't form an H2 molecule on their own in empty space. They need a surface. The universe has only one surface available, and it's something I have just spent two...

Image: A gently glowing galaxy

A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image from April 13, 202...