On Feb. 7, 1999, the Stardust mission launched. The first-of-its-kind sample-return mission was commissioned with flying ...

On5, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a comet and ...

COMING HOME: Particles gathered near a comet in deep space are scheduled to arrive at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in January, so scientists can study them to learn more about comets and ...

The Stardust spacecraft, launched in February 1999, was designed to collect those grains. Its mission would take it into the stream of particles detected by Galileo, then through the cloud of gases ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...