Korean researchers have discovered that intense light from celestial objects, such as supernovae, causes particles floating in space to spin like windmills, and that this rotational force breaks the ...

What nobody knew then was that the haze is an accumulation of particles from meteorites. “Shooting stars” that burn up in the ...

Comets trailing long tails and asteroids from the neighboring asteroid belt gift dust to Earth. Some of this dust passes through the atmosphere to reach the surface as micrometeorites, and a recent ...

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 ...

Recent scientific findings have upended long-held beliefs about cosmic dust, revealing that it is not composed of miniature rocks as previously thought. This discovery challenges existing assumptions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctoral student Linda Losurdo makes cosmic dust in her University of Sydney lab as a tool to understand the origins of life. - ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PhD candidate Linda Losurdo. (CREDIT: Fiona Wolf/The University of Sydney) At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has ...

Tiny particles of space dust could be vital for creating the complex molecules needed for life more quickly, scientists say. An international team including researchers from Heriot-Watt, Friedrich ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale. Reading time 2 minutes Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute ...