To professor grumskin who's comment doesn't seem to be there. I hope he reads this and understand what I meant by his response to my first comment on this subject.

I take it your another smart one professor grumskin. Now going by the name are you really a professor? If so then I shouldn’t be chatting to you, as your way far too smart for the likes of me. Now it’s embarrassing to be told that my comment was the most poorly thought out post you have read, and getting the comments from you, Icdmartin, and dvbhoy1888, makes me feel worse now.
I take it your all from the same litter???
Read my second comment to dvbhoy1888 perhaps that will explain what I mean???
May I also add with someone of your good thinking or comments, your grammar leaves a lot to be desired don’t you think???
Perhaps I should feel privileged to be educated by people like you Icdmartin and dvbhoy1888 who is smarter than me.
Be truthful did you know the answer yourself or did you have to Google it or find out some other way?
Can you tell me which came first the Hen or the Egg???

Whilst I find this kind of stuff extremely interesting, how on earth (or shouild that be, how in space) can they tell these particles are from outside our solar system, if they are still called oxygen, hydrogen and helium. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't we breathe oxygen here on good old mother earth ?. And don't we fill our party balloons with helium ?. And didn't we used to fill our blimps with hydrogen ?. What makes this suspected interstellar stuff different from our own ?.

Typical!! Immigrant particles taking jobs away from our native born particles.

Hang on.... what's new about this...... Surely we already know that the life cycle of stars is the origin of all the 92 elements that make up life and the universe as we know it... ???? We are born in the stars and that's where we return ????

with zillion's of planet's in a never ending space what could possibly be out their maybe a one eyed two horn three toed frog o wait we have one of those it is called george bush

This article has attracted a lot of comments, positive, constractive, sarcastic, sardonic, vitrous, intelligent and so on. That is a way to think more deeply about who we are, what's the purpose of being on this planet , where we are going to. For certain we are all going back to dust, in the meantime let's enjoy our planet and marvel at the miracles of nature. Despite all our knowledge we are only scratching the surface and there a lot more scratching to do just to gaign a little more insight.

I think that the particles were found to be a chocolate derivative .... ie Galaxy , Mily way, flake etc ?

Queue the usual politician-alien jokes....... zzz

The Aliens have asked for asylum in Britain and where do they get the benefits information form and free detached housing application documents. They have stated that help in completing these forms is not necessary since they are already aware of the existence of several experts knowledgeable in the fraudlent completion of such forms. They also enquired whether it was true that the best way to get free lodgings, private medical healthcare and top level care for their elderly was to commit an offence?

does this mean there are aliens out there or is this another case headline sensationlism

So if these three separate types of atoms including oxygen, hydrogen and neon, build what these so called smart people say build people, then why are there not people up there? After all these so called smart people said we were built from space debris, which is hard to believe, as there so many forms of life on earth. And if we were built from this debris, I cannot figure out how, it takes two people/animals, ect to make another life. Why are there not people still being born from this so called matter which made the earth and life on it years ago???
O and another thing, how come that if we did come from dust particles, why humans, animals, birds, and so many different species of birds and animals, that when we humans were formed, that some humans hadn’t a cows head, or a sharks tail, or even a frog’s head or legs, after all you’d nearly wonder how this dust settled in such a way, that there was a pile for humans, a different pile for fish. No there would need to be a lot different piles for all the different piles of animal species. So how come that these different dust piles didn’t get mixed up when they formed/landed in the first place?
Confused just a wee, wee bit.

"A Nasa spacecraft has detected neutral “alien” particles that come from beyond our solar system."
Their lightcraft may have blown up, during rematerialization. Still, that doesn’t (dark)matter now.

well, neon is not a fundamental constituent of life...perhaps the author's thinking of nitrogen?

This is an interesting report in technology terms. You begin with the realisation that the solar system is a lot older than my granny, we don't sit still but move around the universe and no doubt while we do that, we leave some of our debris behind and bump into other debris that didn't start here. So what we are learning is that our detection systems have improve enough to identify it, rather than anything new about the universe itself. As Ahmed Fred said, the Daily Mail reported.

Could someone explain how they can tell that the the atoms are from outside our solar system, since oxygen, hydrogen and neon are naturally occuring elements here on earth? Have they got a "return address"?