Learn how to 3D print and assemble a cyclone air dust separator for your workshop or vacuum system. This video shows the full ...

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier and fluffier than long assumed, according to an international group of ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

The prevailing model for planetary accretion assumes that the solar system's planets formed in an extremely hot, two-dimensional disk of gas and dust, post-dating the sun. Scientists now propose a ...

Most hobby 3D printers are based on FDM, extruding a single-color noodle of melted plastic to build up an object. Powder-based inkjet 3D printing allows you to print detailed, full-color models from a ...

Rosetta's scientists are doing every bit of science they can before the European Space Agency crashes the probe into the comet it's been studying. In fact, the spacecraft's Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Moreover, the stars cluster together in a great plane spanning the sky, ...

In this case, “extinction” refers to the amount of light that is blocked by all that cosmic dust. Once they measured the star’s extinction, the team then rendered those dusty regions into a 3D map ...