NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a debris cloud's size suggests that the dust was formed when two bodies the size of dwarf planets smashed together a few hundred light-years away ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

As well as these smaller events, occasionally larger gusts of wind can lift the dust into large clouds — the biggest of which they observed to cover 1.5 square miles.

The dust thrown through space is in flight and thus, a transient phenomenon. But debris is hitting the Moon constantly and thus, the ejecta thrown up from these impacts is constant.

After two dwarf planet-size objects collided near NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, it was able to see the massive dust cloud resulting from the impact. CNN values your feedback 1.

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...

Pitch-black dust clouds Stars smaller than our sun and up to eight times as large die by first swelling up to being a red giant, and then shrinking to a white dwarf.

Take, for example, the twin balls of space dust known as Kordylewski clouds. First described in the 1950s, these roiling clouds of crud are hypothesized to exist in permanent orbits about 250,000 ...

A persistent, lopsided cloud of dust is hanging around our moon, scientists have discovered. While any sort of cloud hovering around an airless body is strange enough, the culprits creating that ...

Scientists find giant, hidden gas cloud only 300 light-years away: 'This cloud is literally glowing in the dark' Our galaxy's swirling gases and magnetic lines create cosmic artwork in new simulation ...

The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study led by University of ...