Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Scientists are interested in depositing diamond dust into the atmosphere in order ... that settle out too quickly may prove ineffective at scattering enough sunlight to cool the planet ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...

Beijing: An international team of astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of ...

“Interstellar dust — tiny solid particles scattered across the galaxy — acts like a cosmic fog, absorbing and scattering starlight, which is called extinction,” said Zhang ...

By combining precise stellar parameters from LAMOST with Gaia’s low-resolution spectroscopic data, researchers created a ...