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

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

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

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 ...

Every year, thousands of tons of tiny micrometeorites, each smaller than a poppy seed, rain down on our planet, dusting it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cosmic dust may have delivered elements crucial for life to early Earth. Our planet is relatively poor in several elements that are necessary for the chemistry of life, but the dust that constantly ...

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 ...

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