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Chemistry World
November 19, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Philae detects organics on comet's surface The first measurements taken by the Philae lander, which touched down on Comet 67P on 12 November, reveal organic compounds are present on the comet's surface, and also hint at a dense, icy interior.   |
Chemistry World
January 22, 2015
Andy Extance |
Comet 67P's carbon blanket promises solar system birth insights A layer of organic material unlike anything seen on any other comet humans have studied enfolds comet 67P/Churyumov -- Gerasimenko, Rosetta probe scientists have revealed. |
Popular Mechanics
August 21, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
NASA's Greatest Mission? Stardust Finds Amino Acids, Keeps on Giving to Science In Stardust's tennis racket shaped aerogel collectors, Michael Zolensky of NASA's Johnson Space Center and his colleagues found lots of surprises. |
Chemistry World
September 12, 2010
Mike Brown |
Comet shockwaves helped stimulate life on Earth The shock waves caused as comets hit the early Earth could have helped promote the formation of amino acids and the early building blocks of life, say US researchers. |
Chemistry World
December 11, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2015 Innovations in chemistry this year include development of an Ebola vaccine, prize winning antimalarial drug research, and discovery of microstructures in bird feathers. |
Popular Mechanics
June 3, 2008
Kevin Hall |
Phoenix Lander May Have Found Ice on Mars. So What? Samples of ice could contain details of potential clues as to whether or not the planet could have supported life. |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Rosetta detects oxygen on comet 67P Molecular oxygen has been detected in the cloud of gas surrounding comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta space probe. |
Geotimes
July 2005
McFadden & Schultz |
Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Comet Full of Fluff Investigations will turn up many clues as researchers have only started to sift through the data uncovered from the Deep Impact crater. |
Smithsonian
December 2006
Eric Jaffe |
Clues from a Comet The first mission to collect space matter from beyond the moon offers insights into the solar system's creation. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Lisa Pinsker |
Deep Impact Strikes Back The scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) cheered yesterday as they received confirmation that the Deep Impact probe successfully hit its target, comet Tempel 1, after six months' and hundreds of millions of miles' worth of journey. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Bombing a Comet Yesterday at 1:47 p.m. EST, NASA successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft toward its rendezvous with a comet. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Stephen Cass |
App Watch: The Final Frontier -- on Your Phone NASA brings its missions to the smallest screen |
