Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

The process broke down the chemical compounds, forming new elements—carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen—essential components for life. The newly minted homebrew space dust settled in a thin layer ...

Researchers say the breakthrough could help them better understand how the basic ingredients of life form in space.

What rate has sea ice been decreasing in the last few decades? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the history of sea ice decline ...

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks ...

By creating a 'little bit of the Universe in a bottle' in her lab, a PhD student in physics has reverse-engineered the ...

Linda Losurdo, a doctoral student at the University of Sydney, successfully simulated star-like conditions to produce cosmic dust using simple gases and electricity.