NASA`s latest probe to sniff out lunar atmosphere

Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013, 14:08

NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 pm EDT Friday from it`s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.

Russian meteor explosion`s dust lingered in atmosphere for 3 months

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 22:40

A meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk left behind a huge plume of dust, with hundreds of tons of material in it, in the atmosphere that still lingered three months after the February 15 explosion.

Is dust pollution speeding up melting of Himalayan glaciers?

Last Updated: Monday, August 5, 2013, 14:07

Cryosphere collectively describes the portions of the Earth`s surface where water is in the form of ice, snow, glaciers and frozen ground.

Herschel Space Observatory discovers 6 Sun-like stars with dust belts

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 12:22

An international team of scientists, has observed six stars similar to the Sun with extraordinary dust belts.

Moon dust causing threat for lunar exploration

Last Updated: Sunday, July 7, 2013, 16:00

A return to the Moon could be hampered by dust, a poorly-understood threat to machines and people alike, it has been revealed.

1987 supernova turns into dust factory in neighbouring galaxy

Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 19:23

Low temperatures detected in the remnant of a supernova detected in 1987 may explain the mystery of why space is so abundant with dust grains and molecules.

Lost Apollo 11 moon dust found in California lab warehouse

Last Updated: Sunday, May 26, 2013, 10:50

Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have been rediscovered inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.

Toxic dust may prevent human settlement of Mars

Last Updated: Monday, May 13, 2013, 20:04

Toxic dust on Mars may severely hamper the planned human settlement missions on the red planet as it is dangerous to human health, experts have warned.

Anarchic region of star formation found in dust cloud

Last Updated: Friday, May 3, 2013, 19:02

NGC 6559 is a cloud of gas and dust located at a distance of about 5000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer).

NASA sees leaping dust on moon`s surface

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 15:10

New calculations by NASA scientists showed that electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region.

`Space dust` could be main culprit behind failing satellites

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 12:04

A Stanford scientist has come close to solving a mystery that has long bedevilled space exploration: Why do satellites fail?

NASA restores Apollo`s Moon dust data

Last Updated: Friday, December 7, 2012, 16:36

Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft was launched, NASA has restored the readings from the dust detectors of its mission 14 and 15 on the Moon, which will enhance our understanding of the lunar surface.