Interstellar dust is a critical element for the formation of stars, planets, and biological life, without which the universe ...

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 ...

Less than half a billion years after the Big Bang, a small galaxy was already thick with dust. That is the central finding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere in the southern sky, light that left a small galaxy roughly 13 billion years ago finally landed on the detectors of ...

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 ...

Before life existed on Earth, there had to be chemistry to form organic molecules from the chemical elements nitrogen, sulphur, carbon and phosphorus. For the corresponding chemical reactions to start ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The Earth Institute at Columbia University–Each year nearly 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth from outer space. Now, the first successful chronological study of extraterrestrial dust in ...