These illuminated dust pockets help astronomers understand how stars interact with their surroundings, especially how dust ...

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.

HH 30, a fascinating Herbig-Haro object, serves as a cosmic laboratory for studying star formation and planetary evolution.

The legacy data from these missions provides an unprecedented opportunity to study cosmic dust in galaxies so that we can, for example, answer fundamental questions about the origin of the chemical ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex mission has uncovered invaluable samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing ancient salty minerals and amino ...

Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres and Cosmic Dust Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT) explores the lunar dust/plasma environment through a combination of ...

Scientists had previously searched for cosmic dust, which mainly come from comets and asteroids, in remote locations such as Antarctica or ocean floors. The UK's cathedrals are now being explored ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Norwegian jazz musician and citizen scientist, Jon Larsen has figured out how to do something the experts thought was ...

They occur when something produces a flash of light that radiates out into space. If that light encounters a physical barrier, such as clouds of cosmic dust, it will reflect, arriving at a different ...

My research is in the general area of space plasma physics, cosmic dust, and planetary science. My primary work takes place at the Institute for Modeling Plasmas ...