They analyzed 22 global dust records in sediment cores, and found that since the Cenozoic era, dust deposition in major ocean basins increased stepwise, with sharp rises aligned with Northern ...

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over tens of thousands of years. By tracking helium-3–bearing ...

Trees growing atop granite in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains rely on nutrients from windborne dust more than on nutrients from the underlying bedrock. This surprising finding resulted from a ...

The NASA spacecraft launches Thursday (July 14) on a SpaceX rocket. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new NASA mission will watch ...

You may think of dust as an annoyance to be vacuumed and disposed of, but actually, on a grander scale, it is far more important than most people realise. Globally, dust plays a critical role in ...

A new University of Washington-led study shows that space dust — sandwiched between layers of sediment — tells scientists ...

Dust swirls over the Arabian Peninsula in this image captured by the Suomi NPP satellite in July 2018. NASA’s upcoming Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) will help scientists ...

Few places on Earth would be as miserable to live as the Sahara Desert, which occupies the northern third of Africa. It is a desolate place filled with nothing but sand. Winds whip that sand into huge ...

Researchers look into the amount of cosmic dust in ocean sediment cores of various areas in Arctic to figure out the area's ...

For decades, scientists have known that tropical places like Hawaii, with lush landscapes and vegetation, nutritionally benefit from the dust that blows from Asia. However, results of a new study -- ...