NASA’s Stardust mission wasn’t originally built ... Stardust performed a feat no other spacecraft had accomplished. It captured comet dust traveling over 23,000 km/h using the lightest ...

A spacecraft would rendezvous with a comet ... Previous Nassa missions, like Stardust launched in 1999, have collected comet dust during fly-bys. In 2016 Nasa will launch its Origins-Spectral ...

Sounds of a Comet Encounter: During its Feb. 14, 2011, flyby of comet Tempel 1, an instrument on the protective shield on NASA's Stardust spacecraft was pelted by dust particles and small rocks ...

NASA says Arrokoth is the most distant object ... Unlike many other high-speed spacecraft, Stardust was built to return to Earth after its impressive space flight. It might not look high-tech ...

Physicists at CERN have achieved the ancient dream of turning other metals into gold, and they did it with physics, not magic ...

Lockheed Martin officials handed over the "keys" to the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft to NASA, marking the start of its processing for launch. With the completion of its assembly and testing of the ...

NASA's newest spacecraft aimed at studying the sun have captured a colorful "rainbow" in the warm glow of zodiacal light observed above Earth. The PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and ...

With the completion of its assembly and testing of the first Orion spacecraft set to fly astronauts to the moon, Lockheed Martin transferred possession of the Artemis 2 capsule to NASA's ...

This will mark the first time NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, will board their actual spacecraft while wearing ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the project to move forward with full-scale fabrication of the spacecraft ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget looks to end the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway space station central to NASA’s existing Artemis program — but only after ...