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 ...

On Sunday morning, September 28, 1969, an ancient visitor came crashing down on Earth. A 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite landed in a small farming town north of Melbourne, Australia, and inside, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between 5 and 7 billion years ago, a dying star shot an explosion of particles through space. Some of that stardust ended up in a meteorite that landed in Murchison, Australia, in 1969. And according ...

Particles from deep space due to arrive at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, in January may help scientists better understand the nature of comets and their role in the early history of the ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Complete Information About Sins and Stardust Burlesque: Science Night in Off-Off-Broadway at Under St. Marks Theater. Sins and Stardust Burlesque dives into the wild world of science, where curiosity ...