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 ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

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 ...

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 ...

The process broke down the chemical compounds, forming new elements—carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen—essential components for life. The newly minted homebrew space dust settled in a thin layer ...

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...