As it is typical in the month of June Saharan dust takes over much of the tropics. The deep layer of Saharan dust is currently located over the central Caribbean and is suppressing the chances for ...

NEW ORLEANS — Sarahan dust is a common feature during hurricane seasons. This year the start of the dust moving off the continent of Africa has been slow, but the first big plume of the season is ...

UK astronomers using the 15-m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii have discovered enormous quantities of cosmic dust in the most distant quasar yet observed. The quasar, called SDSS J1148+5251 is ...

Sand from the Sahara desert has reached the Caribbean Sea, stifling tropical storm formations The National Weather Service A little-known, yet common phenomenon has again traveled across the Atlantic ...

A groundbreaking discovery has shed new light on star formation in the early universe, revealing a galaxy that forms stars at an extraordinary rate. Known as Y1, this galaxy is unlike anything ...

QUAD CITIES, Iowa/Ill. (KWQC) - Illinois State Police are still working to identify some of the victims killed in the pile-up on Interstate 55 Monday afternoon just south of Springfield, as a result ...

This is an artistic rendition of dust formation around a supernova explosion. The observations with the X-shooter on the VLT show that dust formation has two stages, which begin shortly after the ...

In a paper published in the Oct. 1, 2013, issue of The Astrophysical Journal, an integrated team of observers and theoreticians led by USRA astronomer Dr. B-G Andersson, has used telescopes in Spain, ...

After last week’s stressful time with Hurricane Elsa, the tropics are taking a breather, according to meteorologists. At least for this week and some of the next. The reason, a massive dust plume ...

Scientists have caught Mars's atmosphere crackling with static, uncovering evidence of miniature lightning in its dust storms.