Posted December 4, 2012 - 05:17 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's confirmed rumors that the Curiosity rover has found organic compounds on Mars - but says they're probably not a sign of life, and likely came from Earth.
Posted December 14, 2011 - 08:25 by Kate Taylor
NASA is planning to use a giant crossbow and harpoon to capture samples from a speeding comet.
Posted November 2, 2011 - 05:05 by Kate Taylor
A team of NASA scientists is looking at ways of using Star Trek-style tractor beams to reel in scientific samples in space.
Posted August 26, 2011 - 05:59 by Kate Taylor
Samples brought back from the Itokawa asteroid indicate that it's made up of the remnants of a much larger body.
Posted May 26, 2011 - 04:33 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's announced that it's to launch an unmanned ship to an asteroid in 2016, gathering samples that could help to explain how life began.
Posted March 24, 2011 - 05:54 by Emma Woollacott
Geologists have embarked upon an ambitious project to drill through the earth's crust and extract a sample of the mantle.
Posted September 6, 2010 - 10:53 by Emma Woollacott
Martian soil may contain carbon-based organic molecules, the building blocks of life.
