After 25 years of laboratory research on protoplanetary dust agglomeration, a consistent
picture of the various processes that involve colliding dust aggregates has emerged …

This review presents our understanding of cometary dust at the end of 2017. For decades,
insight about the dust ejected by nuclei of comets had stemmed from remote observations …

The processes that led to the formation of the planetary bodies in the Solar system are still
not fully understood. Using the results obtained with the comprehensive suite of instruments …

Before Rosetta, the space missions Giotto and Stardust shaped our view on cometary dust,
supported by plentiful data from Earth based observations and interplanetary dust particles …

The radio science experiment RSI on-board Rosetta determined the mass of the nucleus of
comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at the start of the prime mission from 2014 August to …

Debris belts on the periphery of planetary systems, encompassing the region occupied by
planetary orbits, are massive analogues of the Solar system's Kuiper belt. They are detected …

The properties of dust in the protoplanetary disk are key to understanding the formation of
planets in our Solar System. Many models of dust growth predict the development of fractal …

Comets evolve due to sublimation of ices embedded inside porous dust, triggering dust
emission (that is, erosion) followed by mass loss, mass redistribution and surface …

Abstract On 12 November 2014, the Philae lander descended towards comet
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, bounced twice off the surface, then arrived under an …

The annual flux of extraterrestrial material on Earth is largely dominated by sub-millimetre
particles. The mass distribution and absolute value of this cosmic dust flux at the Earth's …