I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...
In 2006, NASA’s Stardust mission accomplished something no other spacecraft had done before: it returned solid material from ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
An international team of scientists has examined dust grains gathered by the NASA Stardust spacecraft and brought back to Earth – and has discovered that they originated in the interstellar dust ...
On January 15, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a comet and interstellar dust. Two weeks earlier, Stardust visited the comet ...