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

The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of new stars.

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 ...

The Great Attractor is one of the most perplexing and mysterious phenomena in the universe. Located 250 million light-years ...

At CU Boulder, federal funding also supports research projects like the Dust Accelerator Laboratory that helps us understand ...

To celebrate its third year of operations, the powerful space telescope has peered into the heart of an empyrean essence of ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...