Stardust in the laboratoryReaching for the stars isn’t so out of reach these days. With the development of increasingly sophisticated instruments, researchers not only are able to get more ...

Since the moon dust brought by Apollo astronauts wasn't sufficient, the researchers created 'amended moondust' to grow the ...

A cosmic formation known as the 'dumbbell nebula' will be visible from Earth in August. Will you need a telescope to see it?

For billions of years, Earth has been bombarded by tiny particles of rock and metal from space. When these extraterrestrial ...

After the Stardust samples return to Earth, Westphal and his team at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory will take 1.6 million “movies” of the aerogel collector, each covering a ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has won a NASA prize that they will use to further develop their ...

In space, there are clouds that contain gas and dust ejected from stars. Our solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago from such a molecular cloud.

From 2002 to 2004, Krug joined the all-student team that developed the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, a scientific instrument riding on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. The instrument, which has ...