Here on Earth, dust is a collection of small particles originating from geological sources, such as rocks, as well as other ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered a hidden truth about the composition of space dust which helps to form planets and stars around ...

The Webb telescope detected interstellar dust from a galaxy that was 114,000 light-years from the galactic core, defying ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Professor Martin McCoustra from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, who took part in the study published in the Astronomy ...

The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The ...

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

Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

When a star is born, the process leaves behind a flurry of high-energy gas, dust and debris. Some of this remnant material clumps together into planets, the way Earth likely formed. Others end up ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered seven supermassive black hole-powered quasars surrounded by veils of dust ...