When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in their eyes. Well, not ...

NASA’s Mars Odyssey captured a stunning sunrise view of Arsia Mons, revealing water-ice clouds and offering insights into ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

But the ice can't form in the clouds without something to latch on to. That's where the dust comes in, providing a kind of "seed" or "nucleus" for the ice to form around. NASA scientists ...

But when dust collects on otherwise bright surfaces like snow or ice, it does the opposite, sucking up solar heat and hastening ice melt. Dust also changes the way different types of clouds form.

carrying dark dust from the ground below. When this darker material settles on the surface, it absorbs more sunlight, causing the Martian ice to melt faster and the dark material to sink through ...