Stardust@home users will hunt for dust grains that may resemble these test particles, fired into an aerogel from a special air gun What may be the largest hands-on research project ever launched ...

Captured dust grains that flew into our solar system from interstellar space are providing our first on-the-ground glimpse of the stuff between the stars. Having the particles in hand will ...

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The research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, theorizes the 900 foot-long cigar-shaped object is comprised of dust fragments from an interstellar comet, which had a chunk of rock ...

‘Oumuamua became the first observed interstellar object to zip through our solar system in 2017. Now, researchers think they have uncovered a simple solution for what propelled the comet during ...

On its way to Wild 2, Stardust collected interstellar dust material older than the solar system. In 2003, the probe flew within 2,050 miles (3,300 km) of the asteroid 5535 Annefrank.

To search 1.5 million digital scans of the foam-filled collectors in which the grains of dust are trapped, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are recruiting more than 100,000 ...