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NASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter with comet ...

The first image of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft is a composite made from observations on Jan. 18 and 19, 2011. On Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14 in U.S. time zones), Stardust will fly ...

It will be a moment tinged with history when the Stardust spacecraft makes an encounter with Asteroid 5535 Annefrank this weekend. The flyby will test many of the systems and procedures to be used ...

This story was updated at 12:44 p.m. EST. NASA has released the first photos of the comet Tempel 1 taken by its Stardust probe late yesterday (Feb. 14), showing the icy wanderer in the distance as the ...

An artificial crater on the comet Tempel 1 created nearly six years ago by a NASA spacecraft takes center stage in a flood of new photos released late Tuesday (Feb. 15) after another probe revisited ...

NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully completed a close flyby of asteroid Annefrank on Nov. 1, in a rehearsal of procedures the spacecraft will use during its scheduled January 2004 encounter with ...

Stardust NExT must love comets. On Valentine's Day the spacecraft will get up close and personal with its second. It's been seven years since the original Stardust danced with Wild 2 out beyond the ...

Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. An ...

NASA's Stardust spacecraft did more than snare dust samples of Comet 81P/Wild during its January 2004 flyby. It also caught at least seven fluffy flakes of interstellar dust - microscopic bits of ...