Spirit's front-right wheel grinds to a halt, just as it is needed to reach a north-facing slope to maximise the sunlight falling on the vehicle's solar arrays - New Scientist
The first test images of Mars from NASA's newest spacecraft provide a tantalizing preview of what the orbiter will reveal when its main science mission begins next fall - NASA/JPL
Finding a reservoir of icy comets, so close to Earth bolsters a theory that they could have played a key role in forming Earth's oceans - New Scientist
A new study of a meteorite that originated from Mars has revealed a series of microscopic tunnels that are similar in size, shape and distribution to tracks left on Earth rocks by feeding bacteria - Oregon State University
Just when astronomers thought they had solved one of astronomy's deepest mysteries — the origin of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) — Mother Nature has thrown them for a loop - Sky and Telescope
ESA’s XMM-Newton has seen vast clouds of superheated gas, whirling around miniature stars and escaping from being devoured by the stars’ enormous gravitational fields - giving
a new insight into the eating habits of the galaxy’s ‘cannibal’ stars - ESA
NASA's Stardust probe, having returned samples from Comet Wild 2, may be called back into action to study the comet smashed by Deep Impact - New Scientist