A massive cloud of dust that has traveled thousands of miles from the Sahara Desert is expected to reach Florida as early as the afternoon of June 4 before spreading through the Gulf Coast and ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

A giant cloud of dust from the Sahara is forecast to hit southeastern states this week. NPR speaks with Jason Dunion, a hurricane scientist at NOAA, about what to expect.

A giant cloud of Saharan dust the size of the continental United States floating over the Atlantic Ocean was expected to spread across the Gulf Coast region this week. By the time the thick plume ...

A time-lapse video shows how quickly the Chicago skyline disappeared as the wall of dust blew through. "This looks like a bad thunderstorm coming through, but you can tell that it's just not a ...

A Saharan dust plume off Africa's west coast is expected to gust into the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico this week, suppressing the development of storms. For now. The plume in the Atlantic, the ...

A plume of dust is affecting air quality in Florida and may reach other Southern states soon. Here’s what we know about the potential health effects.

The last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during the Dust Bowl in the early to mid-1930s.

A dust storm with strong hues of orange that El Pasoans say resembled the atmosphere of Mars, took over the region this week, creating a health hazard for the community.