Silicon carbide (SiC) dust is one of the most important ingredients in cosmic dust, the tiny particles floating throughout ...

Silicon carbide dust is forged in the atmospheres of dying, carbon-rich stars and later scattered across the cosmos. But exactly how these grains form has long remained a mystery.

Experiments conducted at Berkeley Lab helped to confirm that samples of interplanetary particles – collected from Earth’s upper atmosphere and believed to originate from comets – contain dust leftover ...

Wolf–Rayet stars produce dust that contributes to the interstellar medium, providing metals necessary for the formation of rocky planets. WR 112, a carbon-rich Wolf–Rayet (WC) star in a binary system ...

Dust is everywhere — not just in your attic or under your bed, but also in outer space. To astronomers, dust can be a nuisance by blocking the light of distant stars, or it can be a tool to study the ...

Bright, colorful pockets of star formation blooming like roses in a spiral galaxy named NGC 972. ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Ho This week’s Hubble image shows the beautiful rosy glow of a dusty spiral galaxy ...

As it is typical in the month of June Saharan dust takes over much of the tropics. The deep layer of Saharan dust is currently located over the central Caribbean and is suppressing the chances for ...

NEW ORLEANS — Sarahan dust is a common feature during hurricane seasons. This year the start of the dust moving off the continent of Africa has been slow, but the first big plume of the season is ...

A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight clouds ...