On04, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Stardust was the ...

Something struck NASA’s Stardust spacecraft at a speed that defied all expectations—an object moving at nearly 13,650 miles per hour, or Mach 19. The collision, recorded by the probe’s sensors, was ...

DENVER - NASA ordered its comet-hunting Stardust probe to burn its remaining fuel on Thursday, setting off a sequence that shut down the spacecraft after a 12-year career. Stardust had finished its ...

After blazing a bright trail through the pre-dawn skies of the Pacific Northwest, a re-entry capsule from NASA's Stardust spacecraft floated to a parachute landing in the Utah desert Sunday with a ...

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 ...

The Stardust spacecraft, launched in February 1999, was designed to collect those grains. Its mission would take it into the stream of particles detected by Galileo, then through the cloud of gases ...

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah — After a seven-year journey, a NASA space capsule returned safely to Earth on Sunday with the first dust ever fetched from a comet, a cosmic bounty that scientists hope ...

For thousands of years, stargazers on Earth have marveled at the ghostly beauty of comets as they streak across the night sky trailing tails of fire, wondering what they are and where they come from.

PASADENA, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft flew through the bright halo of a distant comet yesterday and scooped up less than a thimbleful of dust that could someday shed light on how our solar system was ...

PASADENA, Calif. - A NASA spacecraft flew through the bright halo of a distant comet Friday and scooped up less than a thimbleful of dust that could someday shed light on how our solar system was ...