The Red Spider Nebula reveals its most intimate secrets thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. This astonishing cosmic structure, photographed with unprecedented precision, reveals details ...

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary ...

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice ...

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from ...

In a captivating celestial showdown, stars clash with cosmic dust, and NASA's Picture of the Day captures the ongoing battle in the mesmerizing Carina Nebula. The clash unfolds within the mystical ...

What rate has sea ice been decreasing in the last few decades? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to ...

Extraterrestrial particles found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean could unlock at least 30,000 years of sea ice history, a ...

Previous observations of A1689-zD1 have found that it has a metallicity close to the solar value and that it contains a substantial amount of dust—with an estimated mass of 15 million solar masses.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...