NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded sounds from Mars dust devils and revealed tiny electric sparks shaping the planet’s ...

The vast expanses of intergalactic space appear to be filled with a haze of tiny, smokelike “dust” particles that dim the light from distant objects and subtly change their colors, according to an ...

Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our Sun, is known to host at least one terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit. Here the European Space Agency reports the ALMA detection of the star at ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Not everyone get to hold dust brought from outer space in a container they built, but that's exactly what came true for a young Colombian researcher. The Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 mission ...

When the solar system was first organizing itself, a disk of gas and dust took shape around the sun's central mass. It eventually sorted itself into the system of planets we see today. But there are ...