Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, ...

Dust can shield the sun to keep daytime temperatures cooler, and act like a blanket to keep nighttime temperatures warmer. And particles of dust can act as the starting point for clouds to form, while ...

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier and fluffier than long assumed, according to an international group of ...

The “space dust” which helps to form the stars and planets around the cosmos is spongier than previously thought, an international team of scientists has found. Astronomers and astrochemists reviewed ...

MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WKRN) — On Friday, September 12th, the Mt. Juliet League Inc. Facebook page posted a video of a large dust devil at a local baseball field. According to Robin Speight, the park ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – There may not have been a cloud in the sky Thursday, but that doesn’t stop dust devils from forming. Accord to the National Weather Service, a dust devil is, “a small, ...

Dust storms are nothing new to Arizona, a state that sees the massive walls of dust roll in every year. In the past month, the Phoenix area saw two major storms, causing flight cancellations, damaged ...

Health risks associated with dust pollution continue to kick up interest in the Great Salt Lake, and new research shows Utah’s youngest residents may be the most vulnerable to its fallout. Scientists ...

Saturday afternoon, the Mt. Juliet League Inc. out of Tennessee posted a wild video of a dust devil to its Facebook page. No, the Tazmanian Devil from Looney Tunes has no role in this. Sorry for the ...

In his 1963 scifi story “The Invincible,” the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the ...

An Iowa man captured video this week of a large dust devil that whipped up in the middle of Gowrie. KCCI Chief Meteorologist Jason Sydejko called the dust devil "incredibly defined," as it spun for ...