Latest articles by Andrea Thompson
Mission controllers solve glitch with Hubble camera, but still working on anomaly in other instrument.
New computer simulation suggests first stars could have been binary.
Phoenix Mars lander observes low-level clouds and snowfall on Mars.
Phoenix Mars lander observes low-level clouds and snowfall on Mars.
Test rover is set up in rig built mimic Spirit situation stuck in Martian sand.
Detailed images suggest features formed by flow of water in Mars recent past.
With its cryogen depleted, Spitzer telescope prepares for its warm mission.
Haumea has fastest spin, odd shape, and a trail of icy shards from a long-ago collision.
Astronomers model abundances of key biological elements early in universe.
Disk of gas and dust found around nearby, young binary star system.
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory assemble Curiosity rover, work out remaining kinks.
Astronomers finally able to detect newborn stars in center of Milky Way.
A unique class of stars follow fast, weird orbits around the Milky Way.
At the JPL rover test bed, team members work to free the Spirit rover.
Cold gas cloud that could give rise to massive stars found in Milky Way.
Subaru telescope images debris stripped from colliding galaxies; could shed light on early galactic formation.
Giant galaxy M87 has biggest black hole yet weighed, suggests other black holes more massive than thought.
New finding could help determine Hubble Constant.
'Dark' gamma-ray bursts hidden behind dust, reveal star formation.
Spirit used its robotic arm to take image underneath itself to get better view of sandy trap.
Twice this summer, the sun will set in alignment with Manhattan's cross street.
Optical observations show night and day sides of tidally locked exoplanet.
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity hits 10 miles on the odometer.
