Cosmic dust particles may be crucial for life's building blocks, pioneering research suggests. Scientists from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, collaborating with teams from Germany's Friedrich ...
A strange, lopsided dust cloud shrouds Earth's moon, ever skewed toward whichever side is facing the sun. Now, a new study may finally explain how the asymmetrical cloud got its shape. Most of the ...
In 2004, astronomers spotted a planet-like object orbiting Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. With further observations, however, it started to look more like a dust cloud—a ...
A mysterious layer of particles that occupies the lower regions of Venus’s atmosphere has long puzzled astronomers. However, ...
Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space.