Back at the end of the last century, I and many other readers around the world were bowled over by “The Voyage of the Narwhal” (1998), Andrea Barrett’s fictional account of a band of American ...

If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium ...

From Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact and Fiction, which will be published next month by W. W. Norton and Company. Waste seemed like all I knew when I was a child. My parents didn’t get along, and ...

Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to better understand lunar regolith, or moon dust, and its potentially damaging effects as NASA prepares to send astronauts back to ...