Join Stardust@Home. Like SETI@home, Stardust@home is an Internet-based search where volunteers are searching for dust grains, collected from comet Wild 2, that originated from stars millions of light years away. The Stardust spacecraft safely returned back to Earth during the early morning of January 16, 2006 from its long journey back from comet Wild 2. A web-based virtual microscope will be made available to the public in mid-March and this will allow volunteers that have been trained and tested to search for, discover, and name their own star dust. So join the club and lets prepare for new discoveries!

UPDATE: Scientists have confirmed that particles from a comet (Wild 2) and interstellar dust have been returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission. "The collection of cometary particles has exceeded our expectations," said Dr. Donald Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator from the University of Washington, Seattle. "We were absolutely thrilled to see thousands of impacts on the aerogel."