Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This so-called accretion is not yet fully understood. Astrophysicists at the ...

On September 22, 2021, the IceCube detector buried under Antarctic ice caught a neutrino carrying 750 trillion electron volts ...

Billowing clouds of the stuff struck a severe blow to the American heartland during the 1930s, ruining wheat crops and forcing farming families to flee westward. Apollo astronauts tracked it into the ...

A ghost particle from Antarctica has led scientists to a hidden galaxy 11 billion light-years away, pointing to a new kind of ...

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This is an electron microscope image of a dust particle rounded by eolian transport. It originated in the Sahara desert and was found in 7.2 million year old sediments in Greece. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

A dust sensor is an optical electronic system to detect fine particles such as dust. In principle, an optical dust sensor detects the dust particle concentration the in air by using an optical sensing ...