They found that diamond dust can be particularly effective due to its slow atmospheric settling, which provides a prolonged cooling effect. Unlike other aerosols that may clump and trap heat ...

Launched in July 2022, NASA's EMIT mission aboard the International Space Station has evolved from mapping minerals in ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Norwegian jazz musician and citizen scientist, Jon Larsen has figured out how to do something the experts thought was ...

Massive plumes of smoke from wildfires in New Mexico have been caught on satellite images at the exact same moment a dust storm swept across Colorado. The footage from the National Oceanic and ...

This provides a strategy for detecting planets around other stars without seeing ... In 2005, NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope mapped out a ring of dust around Vega. This was further ...