A 'false dusk' will be visible during twilight in February, but only from locations that are free of light pollution. Here's ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

I work with Mihaly Horányi studying the interplanetary dust environment with instrumentation and simulation. I'm the lead for the Student Dust Counter aboard New Horizons currently making in-situ ...

This piece of interplanetary dust is thought to be part of the early solar system and was found in our atmosphere, demonstrating lightweight particles could survive atmospheric entry as they do ...

The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...

How do variations in the Sun’s activity, interplanetary plasmas, and inputs from the interstellar medium influence the energetic particle and dust environment of space and exploration target bodies?

SPONSORED Interplanetary exploration is crucial to ensuring long-term human resilience, from resource diversification to ...

Interplanetary dust in the solar system forms what is known as a zodiacal cloud, which straddles the ecliptic — the plane of Earth's orbit around the sun. Related: Amazing space views of ESO's ...

The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters ...

Making amino acids is tricky, even in the laboratory. We know amino acids exist in some kinds of meteorites and interplanetary dust particles. When they rain down on a planet's surface ...