Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

Researchers study dust electrification in the lab to understand how this process shapes atmospheric conditions on Earth and ...

Satellites help scientists to document a correlation between dust travelling from Africa and hailstones falling in the Alps.

Astronomers and astrochemists reviewed years’ of research to try and resolve a simple question – is cosmic dust porous?

Not miniature rocks’ - These tiny dust grains are fundamental to astronomy and are found in the star-forming regions of space ...