When I was about ten years old, I went through a phase where I was obsessed with microscopes. I made a massive slideshow presentation for class called "Blow It Up," for which I examined everything in ...

Stardust’s orbit around the Sun takes it from inside Earth’s to well beyond that of Mars. On January 29, two weeks after Stardust’s sample-return capsule touched down on the Utah desert, controllers ...

Traces of a rare and pristine form of stardust that pre-dates our Solar System have been captured for the first time high above the Earth, confirming the key role of silicates in rocky planet ...

A tiny speck of stardust, hidden within a meteorite from Antarctica, is likely older than our sun — and was catapulted into our celestial neighborhood by an ancient star explosion that predates the ...

Madeleine Brand talks with Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday, about the return to Earth of the Stardust space probe after a seven-year mission to capture microscopic ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery in a sample returned from an asteroid: Embedded in its rocks are grains of stardust. The dust, which came from distant stars and drifted through space for ...