Every day, without any visible sign, Earth gains weight. Tens of tons of extraterrestrial microparticles, shed by comets and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers looking deep into the core of this cosmic behemoth just found a massive, dark void. It’s a physical hole in space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...