A growing body of research suggests that cosmic dust, originating from asteroid collisions and comet disintegration, may have played a crucial role in sparking the formation of life on Earth. This new ...

Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life ...

Astronomers have observed a so-called standard candle supernova generating clouds of cosmic dust, bringing us a step closer to understanding the life and death cycle of stars.

Most cosmic dust probably comes the Zodiacal cloud, an interplanetary dust cloud that orbits our Sun. Earth passes through this cloud, and the cosmic dust is swept up by our planet's atmosphere.

It comes from outer space. Mary Westover talks to the scientists searching for hidden micrometeorites in Antarctica and on cathedral roofs.

Tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars were previously shrouded in the cosmic dust of the Tarantula Nebula. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope can penetrate through the dust clouds to ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

To find out whether cosmic dust could possibly be the source that jump- started prebiotic chemistry (reactions), Walton developed a model together with colleagues from the University of Cambridge.

Cosmic dust may have helped to kick-start life on Earth, new research suggests. The findings challenge a widely held assumption that this was not a plausible explanation.