The powerful winds of a dust storm can carry dry earth far and wide, across oceans and from deserts to snow-covered mountaintops. Human influence, combined with the forces of Mother Nature, may also ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Dust devils, they are usually harmless whirlwinds that make for a bit of excitement on a sunny afternoon with clear skies and warming temperatures. But sometimes, these ...

There are billions of stars and planets in the universe. The planets are formed in dust clouds that swirled around a newly formed star. But where does the cosmic dust come from? New research shows ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

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WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have taken a baby step in trying to answer the cosmic question of where we come from. Planets and much on them, including humans, come from dust — mostly from dying stars.

A dust devil is a spinning column of rising air similar to a tornado. The only difference is that a tornado would be attached to a cloud. Dust devils are also smaller and weaker than tornadoes. The ...

Over the years, astronomers have discovered and confirmed the existence of nearly 3,000 exoplanets, but there is one question that they still haven’t been able to answer satisfactorily — how exactly ...

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