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.

In 2006, NASA’s Stardust mission accomplished something no other spacecraft had done before: it returned solid material from beyond the Moon’s orbit. The samples it brought back included interstellar ...

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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 ...

This image shows an X-ray fluorescence map of the first interstellar dust candidate, Orion. Red represents aluminum, green represents iron and blue represents magnesium. Read the Full Story Here. NASA ...