Astronomers typically describe the cosmos with numbers that are, well, astronomical. They measure distances within our galaxy ...

These events are caused by dust plumes from the Sahara desert that travel thousands of kilometres across the Mediterranean.

The technology used to predict sand and dust storm (SDS) severity has for decades systematically overestimated when and where ...

Mars may look like a frozen desert today, but new evidence suggests its watery past didn’t simply fade away quietly—it may ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

Learn more about the nearly invisible layer of carbon that may control how dust grains become electrically charged and how ...

It's that time of year when thick clouds of Saharan dust can traverse across the Atlantic and into the Caribbean. And when conditions are right, weather patterns will send that dust towards the Gulf ...

When the sun set on May 31, 2017, in Cambria, Wisconsin, no one at Didion Milling's corn processing facility could have ...

Dust can be almost poetic—a dust of powder across the cheeks or a dusting of snow on the trees—but the quotidian necessity of how to eliminate dust is not. Household dust is made up of the detritus of ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A dust storm near downstate Bloomington on Tuesday afternoon prompted Illinois State Police to shut down parts of Interstate 55 and Interstate 74. Police said I-55 was closed in both ...

I’ve got a complicated relationship with my Roomba, Keith, who sometimes refuses to charge but also works his wheels off ridding my home of dust. I hate dust, both because I’ve got allergies and ...