New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. With its ...

When comets pass close to the sun, they give off a residue of particles that make their way through the Earth's atmosphere. This dust, scientists have reported, might be older than the sun itself.

With the aim of allowing astronauts to live off the land as much as possible when they return to the Moon, NASA has awarded Blue Origin a US$35-million Tipping Point contract to develop the company's ...

This illustration depicts asteroid Phaethon being heated by the Sun. The asteroid’s surface gets so hot that sodium inside Phaethon’s rock likely vaporizes and vents into space, causing it to brighten ...

Microscopic grains of space dust captured by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft appear to have come from interstellar space. These fragile particles, perhaps the first directly captured from outside the solar ...

Technology designed to help space exploration can be used to keep solar panels dust free and energy efficient, say US researchers. Dr Malay K. Mazumder, of Boston University has presented his latest ...

The spacecraft landed in 2019 to study the deep interior of the planet. NASA is being forced to end its Mars lander mission early because of dust. Officials announced Tuesday the InSight spacecraft is ...