The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

An enormous glowing cloud that contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas has been discovered near the solar ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Scientists have uncovered a colossal, previously hidden hydrogen cloud, named Eos, just 300 light-years from Earth — the ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a massive molecular cloud that, if we could see it in our sky, would ...

Named Eos, the cloud of gas would appear huge in the night sky if visible to the naked eye and could shed light on solar ...

The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud “Eos,” after the Greek goddess of mythology who is the personification ...

For the first time, astronomers located a molecular cloud by detecting hydrogen, its key component, rather than other ...

Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been unmasked in all its enormous, invisible glory.