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Frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Newt Gingrich, has pledged to have the first permanent base on the moon if he is elected president.

The winners of the third annual NASA-sponsored Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge have been announced and at the top of the list are Alliance Rocket, from the United States and virtual participants Alliance CyberAvo from Europe.

A powerful and fast-moving solar flare, which erupted on the surface of the Sun on Sunday, at 10.59 p.m., is heading towards Earth.

Gloves off for embattled Mitt Romney as he focuses on rival Newt Gingrich's past as an adviser to Freddie Mac mortgage lender on £1.6m contract.

A long-duration solar flare that first erupted on the sun is heading towards Earth. The flare can disrupt long-range radio communications. On the other hand, it can create a beautiful display of the northern lights (aurora borealis) on Saturday.

NASA has caught a comet death on camera for the first time. The comet flew very close to the Sun, and it got evaporated due to the excess heat.

NASA's Goddard Institute for the Space Studies in New York has found that 2011 was the ninth warmest year since 1880.

NASA will join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and students from the U.S for the Zero Robotics Spheres Challenge.

In an exclusive interview to the International Business Times, Philip Muirhead, a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who led a team which discovered three exoplantes recently, explains the significance of the discovery.

Tweetup is an informal meeting program organised by NASA. It provides an opportunity to the people across the world to meet and speak to the experts like astronaut, engineers, scientists and managers

Released by NASA, these rarely-seen images have been digitally restored to an incredibly high quality, showing snapshots of life literally out of this world.

The Americans are said to be wary of Chinese space missions.

Apple Inc. has long been known for ground-breaking technological innovations and its latest quest - to acquire fuel-cell patents - could further strengthen the company's portfolio of 17,000 software patents. Indeed, Apple could silently planning an eco-friendly substitute for existing chemical batteries by acquiring fuel-cell patents to power its devices.

According to meteorologists based in New Zealand, the phenomenon is the result of the "2012 hysteria" sparked by predictions that the world is coming to an end this year.

The 'twin planet', Kepler-20f, was discovered by the Kepler space telescope. It is the first time a twin has been discovered in another solar system.

The Flexible Image Transporting System is used by the European Space Agency to preserve data from its numerous space missions.

A team of researchers and astronomers believe that they have identified the smallest known black hole with the help of the special x-ray pattern, heartbeat.

Twenty seven year old Discovery space shuttle was finally decommissioned. It would now be brought to the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

The NASA Mars Exploration Rover "Opportunity" has discovered fresh evidence suggesting the red planet once housed flowing water streams.

NASA claims it will build the world's most powerful telescope by 2018.

NASA has released a list of recently discovered planets and moons that could possibly support life, with two of them meeting its exact criteria for habitability.