For the first time, scientists have identified and analyzed single grains of silicate stardust in the laboratory. This breakthrough, to be reported in the Feb. 27 issue of Science Express, provides a ...

The Planetary Society, the founding sponsor of SETI@home, is again teaming with the University of California at Berkeley to engage the public in real science. The new project – Stardust@home – will ...

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 ...

Cosmic dust particles may be crucial for life's building blocks, pioneering research suggests. Scientists from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, collaborating with teams from Germany's Friedrich ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life through our galaxy. That's the conclusion of a new study from Chalmers ...

An instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will soon launch on a NASA space mission where it will aim to collect interstellar dust particles hurtling through space at an average of 16 ...

According to astronomers, these types of aging stars produce large amounts of cosmic dust and spread it into space.

Some stars don’t just shine; they also manufacture the raw ingredients of future worlds.