Big outbreaks of Saharan dust – tens of millions of tons of mineral dust hoisted from the sands of North Africa into the ...

A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...

Saharan dust is expected to hit the Texas Gulf Coast by Sunday, becoming the most irritating to sensitive eyes and noses by early next week.

Each year, more than a hundred million tons of mineral dust from the world’s largest hot desert are heaved across the Atlantic, often blowing through the Caribbean to the shores of South Florida ...

Some 60 million tons of the Sahara's nutrient-laden mineral dust lofts into the atmosphere annually, according to NASA, creating a massive layer of hot, ...

Each year, strong winds carry more than a billion metric tons – or the weight of 10,000 aircraft carriers – of mineral dust from Earth’s deserts and other dry regions through the atmosphere.

In the week ahead, strong winds from the Sahara Desert will pick up its mineral dust and the jetstream will carry it more than 5000 miles west to the U.S. For North Texas, ...

The instrument, called Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), flew to the orbital outpost aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule on July 14 and was installed on the space station's ...

Exacerbated by heatwaves and drought, dust storms are increasing around the globe – but researchers have limited data on their impact on climate change. NASA hopes its new spaceborne instrument ...

Researchers from UCSD have been collecting samples of mineral dust at the dunes to learn more about its components, which is challenging decades of studies released by the SLO Air Pollution ...