Kuiper Belt dust may be in our atmosphere (and NASA labs) right now

Astronomers may not have far to go to study a piece of the distant, icy region

Kuiper Belt

COME FROM AWAY   Some interplanetary dust particles that end up in Earth’s atmosphere may have started life in the faraway Kuiper Belt (illustrated), a region of icy objects farther from the sun than Neptune.

ESA

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Grains of dust from the edge of the solar system could be finding their way to Earth.