Space agencies like NASA have an ongoing fight with a tiny enemy: dust. From Martian dust covering up the solar panels of Mars landers like InSight and rovers like Opportunity to tricky sharp moon ...

Like a chameleon of the night sky, the Moon often changes its appearance. It might look larger, brighter or redder, for example, due to its phases, its position in the solar system or smoke in Earth’s ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

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 ...