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 ...

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 ...

A capsule containing comet particles and interstellar dust samples collected in space by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft — designed and built by Lockheed Martin is heading to Earth for a parachute landing ...

After blazing a bright trail through the pre-dawn skies of the Pacific Northwest, a re-entry capsule from NASA's Stardust spacecraft floated to a parachute landing in the Utah desert Sunday with a ...

Early analysis of comet samples returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft have surprised scientists, showing that at least some of the frozen bodies contain minerals formed at very high temperatures.

LOS ANGELES -- NASA has deactivated most of the Stardust spacecraft that collected the first comet dust ever gathered in space, two weeks after the probe jettisoned samples to Earth from its ...