Anne Minard
New Image: VLT Captures Tumult of Starbirth
[/caption] Newborn stars spew material into the surrounding gas and dust, creating a surreal landscape of glowing arcs, blobs and…
Bullseye: MESSENGER Gears Up For First-Ever Mercury Orbit
[/caption] When MESSENGER streaked into the early morning sky over Cape Canaveral on Aug. 3, 2004, very little was known…
Did Mars’ Missing Carbon Go Underground in a Wetter Age?
[/caption] A close look at the Wisconsin-sized Huygens Crater, above, in Mars' southern highlands gave NASA and Arizona State University…
Grieving Glory — And Will The Taurus XL Fly Again?
[/caption] Last week's loss of the $420 million Glory satellite has sent NASA into an intensive investigation to find out why…
New Look at Messier 82 Reveals Superwind Source, Young Star Clusters
[/caption] Messier 82's galactic windstorms emanate from many young star clusters, rather than any single source, say astronomers who released…
‘Climate Change Satellite’ Fails to Reach Orbit, Crashes in Ocean
[/caption] NASA's Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach…
Solar System’s Story Revealed in a Pea
[/caption] Feast your eyes on some of the solar system's earliest materials: the pink core comprises melilite, spinel and perovskite.…
New Study: Sun’s Deep Physics Explain Sunspot-Free Days
[/caption] The long lull in sunspots at the end of Solar Cycle 23 wasn't just fodder for global cooling predictions…