Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours ...

Whenever a new movie comes out, there’s a question that always seems to linger in the air. Is this movie doing anything new? Is it taking us anywhere fresh? And sadly, in our current day and age, many ...

Glowstone and salt dust can be duplicated due to inconsistent amounts thereof used for recipes in MI machines. Specifically, you can pack 4 glowstone dust and then unpack the block to get 9 back (+5 ...

In his 1963 scifi story “The Invincible,” the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the ...

For anyone wondering whether intense dust storms, such as the haboob that enveloped Phoenix this week, are possible in Southern California, the answer is yes. They’ve hit in the recent past and are a ...

Sarah Lynch Baldwin is a deputy managing editor of CBSNews.com. She helps lead national and breaking news coverage and shapes editorial workflows. A massive wall of dust — called a haboob — hit the ...

The National Weather Service in Phoenix issued both dust storm and severe thunderstorm warnings as the system pushed into Maricopa County Monday evening. The weather service warned drivers of ...

Breathing in moon dust can still give you what one astronaut called "lunar hay fever." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

In Owens Valley, where water diversions by Los Angeles have dried up Owens Lake, dust rising from the dry lake bed is a longstanding problem. Now, scientists have found that dust emissions from the ...

Clouds of Saharan dust carried by winds across the Atlantic Ocean are expected to cause hazy skies over parts of Florida, the Southeast, and the Gulf Coast this week, according to forecasters.

Saharan dust is drifting across the southeastern U.S. and entered the Texas Gulf Coast early Thursday. Fortunately for Texas, the heaviest concentrations remain farther east — along the Gulf Coast ...