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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 15, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a ...

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 ...

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 ...