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 ...

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

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 ...

We can’t fly you to the Moon, but we can do the next best thing – bring a piece of the Moon to you. Our Moon was formed when a baby planet collided with early Earth, flinging debris into orbit. That ...

NASA’s Stardust mission wasn’t originally built to question the origins of life, but its results may reshape that ...

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 ...

NASA explains that as a spacecraft plunges into the atmosphere ... from the Apollo moon missions to the Mars Science Laboratory and Stardust comet sample return mission. Even the Space Shuttle ...

The Stardust spacecraft successfully delivered comet dust in 2006. NASA’s plans to return samples from Mars are on hold after an independent review board criticized the cost and complexity.

Stardust had a happier return in 2006. Both spacecraft set the stage for more complex sample return missions this century. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft launched in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004.

This was NASA’s third sample return from a deep-space robotic mission. The Genesis spacecraft dropped off bits of solar wind in 2004, but the samples were compromised when the parachute failed and the ...

NASA has repeatedly landed spacecraft at the Utah Test and Training ... and it smashed into the Utah desert. Stardust, which gobbled up matter from a comet, came home in 2006—its parachutes ...