Somewhere in the southern sky, light that left a small galaxy roughly 13 billion years ago finally landed on the detectors of ...

Interstellar dust is a critical element for the formation of stars, planets, and biological life, without which the universe ...

At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny slice of outer space and used it to make cosmic dust from scratch. Linda Losurdo, a doctoral researcher in materials and plasma ...

A new European-led telescope project, the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST), promises to map parts of the universe that have long remained obscured by cosmic dust. About half of ...

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Dust can wreak havoc on everything from nasal passages to ...

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For the last 30,000 years, our planet has been hit by a constant rain of cosmic dust particles. Scientists have reached this conclusion after investigating the amount of the helium isotope 3He in ...

Current evidence suggests that microparticles of cosmic dust collide and stick together to form larger dust aggregates that may eventually combine and develop into planets. Numerical models that ...

Cosmic dust—like dust on Earth—comprises groupings of molecules that have condensed and stuck together in a grain. But the exact nature of dust creation in the universe has long been a mystery. Now, ...