New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

ISRO's Dust EXperiment (DEX), a homegrown device, detects interplanetary dust particles that strike Earth. Launched on the ...

ISRO’s DEX instrument has detected interplanetary dust particles striking Earth every 1,000 seconds, revealing a constant ...

These dust particles, finer than sand grains, originate from cometary tails and asteroid collisions, posing unseen risks to ...

ISRO's first home-made dust detector, the Dust EXperiment (DEX), has identified interplanetary dust particles bombarding ...

BENGALURU: The first-ever Dust Experiment (DEX) done by Indian space researchers has yielded results. But this is not road ...

Think finding a needle in a haystack sounds hard? Try finding tiny rocks from space — as small as a grain of sand — inside piles of dust and debris strewn across the roofs of cathedrals. That’s the ...

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 ...

For the last 30,000 years, our planet has been hit by a constant rain of cosmic dust particles. Scientists have reached this conclusion after investigating the amount of the helium isotope 3He in ...

The origin of the microscopic meteorites that make up cosmic dust has been revealed for the first time in new research out today (Sept. 1, 2008) The research, published in the journal Geology, shows ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The pyramid-shaped glow of "zodiacal light" is caused by ...