Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 2, 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth.

In 2006, NASA’s Stardust mission accomplished something no other spacecraft had done before: it returned solid material from beyond the Moon’s orbit. The samples it brought back included interstellar ...

The NASA mission, called Stardust, brought back the only material—other than moon rocks—taken directly from a extraterrestrial body. NASA At the threshold of a sterile lab at NASA's Johnson Space ...

This image shows an X-ray fluorescence map of the first interstellar dust candidate, Orion. Red represents aluminum, green represents iron and blue represents magnesium. Read the Full Story Here. NASA ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- A first look at photos and data collected during a U.S. spacecraft's encounter with a comet last week suggests that astronomy textbooks may have to be rewritten to reflect ...