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.

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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 ...

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 ...