The “space dust” which helps to form the stars and planets around the cosmos is spongier than previously thought, an international team of scientists has found. Astronomers and astrochemists reviewed ...

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier and fluffier than long assumed, according to an international group of ...

The “space dust” which helps to form the stars and planets around the cosmos is spongier than previously thought, a group of scientists have found. The international group of astronomers and ...

Space dust could carry traces of alien life forms to Earth, a report has said. In a paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, Japanese astronomer Tomonori Totani proposed that ...

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 ...

An instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will soon launch on a NASA space mission where it will aim to collect interstellar dust particles hurtling through space at an average of 16 ...

Two supernovae in the Fireworks Galaxy contained thousands of Earth masses worth of dust, suggesting that these stellar explosions helped seed the early universe with the building blocks of planets, ...

An unaccounted for source of space dust which spawns life in the universe has been identified by an international team of scientists. They report in Science Express that Type II supernovae ñ where a ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...

Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, according to a new study from physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder. That ...

With a trowel in one hand and a bucket in the other, Zach Guikema walks along the roofline of the Prince Conference Center. He’s collecting space dust. “It’s called urban micrometeorite collection,” ...