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Scientist charged with improperly passing on classified information

A former U.S. government scientist who served in sensitive positions on classified aerospace projects has been arrested and charged with trying to deliver classified information to someone he thought was an Israeli intelligence official.

Jupiter's stormy Great Red Spot is shrinking

Everything about Jupiter is super-sized, including its colorful, turbulent atmosphere. But there's fresh evidence that one of the planet's most recognizable features, the Great Red Spot, is shrinking.

Mission to fix Hubble Telescope postponed

NASA's plans to fly a fifth and final space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope have suffered another set-back.

More trouble for NASA's Hubble

Engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland have hit two new snags in their effort to repair the Hubble Space Telescope after a major equipment failure in space last month.

Endeavour heads for space station with teacher on board

Space shuttle Endeavour lifted off into the blue skies above Florida on Wednesday, its seven-member crew headed for the international space station to perform assembly work, repairs and deliver supplies.

Universe's first objects possibly seen

Astronomers might have seen the very first stars in the universe. If so, these are incredible stars, some 1,000 times as massive as the sun.

Astronauts to visit Hubble for service call

The shuttle Discovery will pay the Hubble Space Telescope a final servicing call in 2008, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced Tuesday.

Universe might be pill-shaped

Instead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like a pill.

New life in dead star

Newly detected dust found around the burst remains of a dead star could help reveal how planets and stars formed and how life began.

Mystery of explosive star solved

In February, a faint star a few thousand light-years away flared suddenly, beaming so brightly that for a few days it was visible to the naked eye.

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