Colliding dust particles might produce an eerie effect similar to "St. Elmo's fire" on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

One of my favorite space missions is WISE: the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which mapped the entire sky in the far-infrared, well outside what our mere human eyes can see. At those wavelengths ...

Diamond dust is responsible for a mysterious glow emanating from certain regions of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study reports. Astronomers have long known that some type of very small, rapidly ...

A new abstract published by a group of scientists that simulated the low-pressure atmosphere of Mars reveals that the electrical discharge, or static shock, we're familiar with here on Earth might ...

Carole Mundell receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council, The Royal Society and The Wolfson Foundation. However, the views expressed here are her own. Astronauts on the early ...

DULUTH — Recently, I had the opportunity the see a couple displays of noctilucent clouds. Now that we're approaching the summer solstice, this is "high season" for observing these elusive silver-blue ...

Joshua Rhoades was standing near an abandoned farmhouse in rural Illinois on a windy night in early March, fiddling with his camera, when he noticed what he called “a faint, eerie, ethereal glow” ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

There was little need, before, to know exactly how much dust peppers outer space, far from the plane of the Milky Way. Scientists understood that the dimly radiating grains aligned with our galaxy’s ...

The cities of the future will be covered in 'glow-in-the-dark dust' and fed by 'urban farms' growing both on and inside buildings, according to a new report. Spray-on light absorbing dust would give ...

Like something out of a Mad Max movie, a new study shows that dust storms on Mars might glow with tiny sparks. A new abstract published by a group of scientists that simulated the low-pressure ...