Big outbreaks of Saharan dust – tens of millions of tons of mineral dust hoisted from the sands of North Africa into the ...

Dust from the Sahara is threatening Europe’s solar energy plans by blocking sunlight and confusing prediction models. As ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations denounced the unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) as an obstacle to effective response in dealing with the menace of sand and dust storms and their far-reaching ...

Astronomers observe thick slab clouds in the YSES-1 system, darkening the planet’s skies. These clouds are primarily mineral dust, probably containing iron. When the clouds break, iron could ...

In conversation with Mále Uribe, we set out to learn about the processes and ideas that work at the intersection of art, ...

In the week ahead, strong winds from the Sahara Desert will pick up its mineral dust, and the jetstream will carry it more than 5,000 miles west to the U.S. For North Texas, the best chance of ...

Landing on Mars once felt like a distant dream. Now, space agencies have sent rovers and landers to explore the Red Planet for decades.

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...