When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: CfA, Leah Hustak (STScI) The Local Bubble is a region of surprisingly low-density gas ...

In our neighborhood of the Milky Way, we see a region surrounding the solar system that is far less dense than average. But that space, that cavity, is a very irregular, elongated shape. What little ...

The Buddha once described our world as “a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream.” He was speaking more to the transitory nature of reality than cosmology, but he could well have been describing our own ...

The origin story of our galactic neighborhood just got a little clearer. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. A flurry of intense ...

A team of astronomers has reconstructed the history of our local universe to understand the origin of the nearest stars. In a study published today in Nature, they describe an amorphous, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A 3D model of the Milky Way ...

Astronomers discover that a supernovae explosion 14 million years ago initiated a chain of events responsible for the formation of all nearby, young stars. The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide ...

But not Catherine Zucker, currently a Hubble Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute and a former researcher with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Zucker’s interest in bubbles ...