Researchers find that cosmic dust acts as a catalyst, helping simple space gases form key molecules that may jump-start ...

The origin of life on Earth has long remained a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cosmic dust may have helped to ...

A growing body of research suggests that cosmic dust, originating from asteroid collisions and comet disintegration, may have played a crucial role in sparking the formation of life on Earth. This new ...

Cosmic dust trapped, or blocked, by Arctic ice allowed researchers to map 30,000 years of sea-ice history. Their findings ...

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New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, potentially helping kickstart biology as we know it. Subscribe to our ...

The Earth Institute at Columbia University–Each year nearly 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth from outer space. Now, the first successful chronological study of extraterrestrial dust in ...

Every year, hundreds of tiny micrometeoroids from comets and asteroids gently land on your rooftop, surviving atmospheric ...

What rate has sea ice been decreasing in the last few decades? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the history of sea ice decline ...

Around 20,000 years ago, Earth was very, very cold. Global temperatures were 10 degrees Fahrenheit colder than they are today and most of North America was covered in ice. That ice was almost half a ...

The origin of the microscopic meteorites that make up cosmic dust has been revealed for the first time in new research out today (Sept. 1, 2008) The research, published in the journal Geology, shows ...