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 ...

Finding apiece of the cosmos may be as easy as logging onto the Internet for amateursleuths bent on aiding NASA's Stardust mission. Researchersat the University of California, Berkeley are calling on ...

Finding a piece of the cosmos may be as easy as logging onto the Internet for amateur sleuths bent on aiding NASA’s Stardust mission. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are ...

Think you have the right stuff to spot interstellar dust? The Planetary Society, in conjunction with the University of California at Berkeley, is looking for good dust-spotters to join Stardust@home, ...

After months of preparation, the Stardust @ Home treasure hunt kicks off on Tuesday, with tens of thousands of Internet users primed to look for grains of dust from beyond the solar system. The ...

Astronomers have likely located the first ever grains of interstellar dust they can get their hands on with the help of thousands of citizen volunteers in the Stardust@Home project. Just seven tiny ...

Berkeley researchers are seeking volunteers to help identify dust from distant stars swept up by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. Using a web-based software program — a "virtual microscope" — volunteers ...

As NASA's Stardust probe parachuted toward Utah in January, scientists weren't the only ones holding their breath. Some 65,000 members of Stardust@Home were also standing by, waiting for a chance to ...

With NASA’s Stardust spacecraft due to drop its cosmic samples to Earth on 15 January, mission planners are trying to enlist thousands of internet users to help analyse its payload, in a project ...