An international team of scientists has measured the extraordinary amount of space dust that reaches Earth’s surface every ...

A newly identified type of cosmic dust may come from a previously unknown class of near-Earth asteroids, according to a study ...

A researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, potentially helping kickstart biology as we know it. In a recent study ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Life on our planet appeared early in Earth's history. Surprisingly early, since in its early youth our planet didn't have much of the chemical ingredients necessary for life to evolve. Since prebiotic ...

UK astronomers using the 15-m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii have discovered enormous quantities of cosmic dust in the most distant quasar yet observed. The quasar, called SDSS J1148+5251 is ...

Scientists in the UK will analyze cosmic dust collected from ancient structures to understand space material's impact on Earth and its atmosphere. This research will shed light on Earth's interaction ...