NASA’s Stardust mission wasn’t originally built to question the origins of life, but its results may reshape that conversation. Tasked with collecting particles from comet Wild 2, Stardust ...

The spacecraft Stardust is scheduled to return to Earth and land in the Utah desert early Sunday morning after a seven-year, 3 billion-mile voyage. Viewing possibilities: The spacecraft may be ...

Stardust was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Feb. 7, 1999. Between February and May of 2000, the first interstellar dust collection was performed successfully.

The Stardust spacecraft now begins its two-year, 1.1 billion km (708 million mile) trek back to Earth, where it will drop off a capsule containing particles that could hold clues to how the solar ...

Stardust, controlled by NASA/JPL, was chosen as a candidate for tracking tests with ESA’s new 35m deep space ground station at New Norcia (W. Australia), because it is on an interplanetary ...

Launched on Feb. 7, 1999, Stardust trekked more than 2.3 billion miles through the inner solar system to intercept Wild 2, which was 242 million miles from the Earth on Friday.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) A NASA spacecraft on a seven-year mission to collect comet dust survived a zap from an enormous solar flare this month. The Stardust spacecraft was blinded after it was hit ...

Stardust has protective bumpers designed to shield the unmanned spacecraft as it plows through the comet's veil, or coma, at 13,650 mph. A tennis racket-shaped mitt will snag particles during the ...

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 ...

Natasha Bosanac Assistant Professor, Smead Aerospace Friday, Sept. 27 | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 114 Abstract: Our future in space involves miniaturized satellites for low-cost and rapid access to space, ...