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• Comet-hunting probe to shut down

  March 24, 2011 3:40 PM

  DENVER (AP) - NASA's comet-hunting Stardust space probe is performing one more experiment before it shuts down and ends its 12-year voyage through space. Engineers at Lockheed Martin in Denver, where Stardust was built, will tell the spacecraft to burn all its remaining fuel on Thursday. How long that... more »

• CU-Boulder-designed device breaks cosmic record

  October 12, 2010 8:28 AM

  An instrument designed by University of Colorado-Boulder students has traveled 1.67 billion miles from Earth as it gathers data about grains of dust, the building blocks of the solar system. CU researchers say the dust counter onboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has traveled farther than any other... more »

• Panel to probe White House decisions after Gulf spill

  September 27, 2010 8:12 AM

  How well did the White House react to the Gulf oil spill disaster? A federal panel appointed by President Barack Obama starts its investigation Monday. The two-day meeting of the presidential oil spill commission will look at the controversial use of chemical dispersants, a moratorium on deep-water drilling... more »

• NASA awards CU-Boulder $6.7 million for mission

  September 17, 2010 2:04 PM

  NASA has awarded $6.7 million to a University of Colorado team to help with a mission to the sun. The CU-Boulder team will design components of instruments that will be onboard the spacecraft. A small, car-sized satellite called Solar Probe Plus will go to a region of the sun... more »

• BP probe: plenty of blame for oil spill

  September 8, 2010 9:38 AM

  Oil giant BP said in an internal report released Wednesday - before a key piece of evidence has been analyzed - that multiple companies and work teams contributed to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months. In its 193-page report posted on its... more »

• FBI probing Denver police case

  August 17, 2010 3:54 PM

  The FBI is getting involved in a case of alleged police misconduct in Denver. FBI spokesman Dave Joly said Tuesday that the agency has agreed to look into the case at the request of Mayor John Hickenlooper. However, the FBI won't say whether or not that will lead to... more »

• CSPD investigating suspicious death

  August 11, 2010 3:54 PM

  Colorado Springs Police Department Homicide Investigators are probing a suspicious death at an apartment complex. An officer was sent to an apartment at the New Horizon complex Wednesday morning to check on a woman. The officer discovered her body. The apartment is in the 4900 block of El Camino,... more »

• HP CEO Mark Hurd resigns after sexual-harassment probe

  August 6, 2010 4:22 PM

  Hewlett-Packard says CEO Mark Hurd is stepping down following a sexual-harassment probe that found other violations of company standards. Hewlett-Packard says Hurd decided to leave after the investigation into a sexual-harassment claim made against him and the company by a former HP contractor. The probe concludes that the company's... more »

• FBI searches Northeast homes in Times Square probe

  May 13, 2010 11:17 AM

  The FBI says agents are searching several locations in the Northeast in connection with the failed Times Square car bomb. An FBI spokeswoman said Thursday that there is "no known immediate threat to the public or any active plot against the United States." FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz would not... more »

• Safety agency under spotlight in House hearing

  March 11, 2010 8:28 AM

  Toyota's massive recalls are bringing new scrutiny to the government's auto safety agency. They are prompting Congress to look at how federal safety officials have lived up to their mission of protecting motorists. A House panel on Thursday plans to examine the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's oversight of... more »

• NASA to launch University of Colorado instruments

  February 11, 2010 9:12 AM

  Gusty wind has forced NASA to delay the launch of its newest solar observatory. An unmanned Atlas V rocket was supposed to blast off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning with the Solar Dynamics Observatory. NASA put off the launch for an hour, hoping the wind would ease. But... more »

• Inquiry in Ohio bodies case widens worldwide

  November 9, 2009 2:33 PM

  Authorities are investigating whether a man whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas. The FBI told Cleveland police that the agency will investigate any leads... more »

• Moonstruck: NASA probes hit moon looking for water, pictures coming

  October 9, 2009 9:39 AM

  NASA crashed two probes into moon's south pole this morning in a search for hidden ice. But the live pictures of the impact and the six-mile-long plume of lunar dust that had been expected didn't come. The images showed the moon getting close, but cut out before any plume could... more »

• CU-Boulder scientists prepare for Mercury fly-by

  September 28, 2009 5:24 PM

  NASA's Messenegr spacecraft, toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument, will make its third and final fly-by of Mercury Tuesday. The spacecraft will zip within 142 miles of the planet's surface at more than 100,000 mph, taking high-resolution color images of the surface terrain. The... more »

• Surgery center withholds patient name in hepatitis probe

  September 24, 2009 10:38 AM

  A Colorado Springs surgery center is fighting a subpoena from federal prosecutors seeking the name of a patient who may have contracted hepatitis C from a fired surgery technician. Prosecutors want the name as part of their case against 26-year-old Kristen Diane Parker, charged with stealing syringes filled with painkillers... more »

• Probe involving Colorado terror suspect widens

  September 23, 2009 6:02 PM

  Hundreds of investigators have widened their probe of a potential terrorist bomb plot by questioning more residents of a New York City neighborhood raided last week. A law enforcement official familiar with the probe says investigators are re-interviewing people already questioned in Queens. The apartments were searched after a visit... more »

• NYC imam held without bail in terrorism probe

  September 21, 2009 3:40 PM

  A New York City imam accused of lying to officials investigating a terrorism plot has been ordered held without bail. Ahmad Afzali smiled and waved at relatives as deputy marshals led him out of federal court Monday in Brooklyn. His attorney, Ron Kuby, says he'll seek bail for... more »