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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.

The mission is expected to operate for at least 1 Martian year (668 Martian sols/686 Earth days) as it explores with greater range than any previous Mars rover.

With "experts" now poo pooing the Mayan December, 2012 doomsday prophecy the IBTimes has chosen to celebrate the fact the world will keep-turning yet another year, offering you the lucky reader a breakdown of the top 10 most entertaining defunct doomsday prophecies.

The new map, from Arizona State University in Tempe, using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Wide Angle Camera and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument can now accurately portray the shape of the entire moon at high resolution.

A body of water as big as North America's Great Lakes on Jupiter's moon Europa may provide a habitat for life, scientists believe.

With 11.11.11 now upon us and the world still turning, the latest doomsday theory has been firmly placed in the crack-pot pile.

The International Energy Agency has warned that if fossil fuel infrastructure is not radically and rapidly re-thought, the world will 'lose for ever' the chance to avoid devastating climate change.

An asteroid measuring 400-metres wide is set to pass by Earth on Tuesday, closer to it than the Moon.

China's political leadership may be grappling with the flip side of technology after a world-class innovation like its high-speed rail system hit a major road block in terms of safety and security. However, China's space experts have been able to consolidate the country's position as an emerging competitor to the U.S. by means of a couple of success stories of late.

The most likely locations for microbes on Mars to grow were under the surface in wet environments warmed by hydrothermal activity, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.

NASA scientists are monitoring an iceberg the size of New York or Berlin forming over a vulnerable Antarctic glacier which is about to break off.

NASA has begun funding research into "tractor beams" in order to gather samples for analysis in future missions.

NASA has won a GreenGov Presidential Award from the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The GreenGov awards celebrate exceptional efforts to promote sustainability in federal agency operations.

Ministers, tech executives and internet activists from around the world have gathered in London for a Conference on Cyberspace, to discuss how to tackle security threats and crime on the Internet without stifling economic opportunities or freedom of speech.

NASA is tracking the path of an asteroid as it flies past the Earth closer than the moon's orbit on Nov 8.

The defunct German research satellite ROSAT finally fell back to Earth somewhere in Asia over the weekend, but its exact whereabouts remain a mystery.

California preacher Harold Camping has predicted that October 21 will be the end of the world, after his previous prediction that the rapture would take 200 million Christians to Heaven on May 21 turned out to be a dud.

NASA have said that the hole in ozone layer above the Antarctica remains significantly large.

Astronomers using the Keck telescope in Hawaii have discovered the youngest planet ever found, capturing it as it was forming around a star.

Astronomers have discovered a huge water vapor cloud floating around a black hole in space. The cloud is so big that it holds 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth's oceans, say scientists.

Scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge are set to embark on its third year of aerial surveys of Antarctica's changing ice cover.

An attempt by Iran to launch a live monkey into space has ended in failure, touted as their first step to launching a man into space, reports have said.

NASA has released an interactive, educational video game called NetworKing that depicts how the Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) network operates

Short Gamma-ray bursts from supernova and star collisions from the other side of the galaxy could lead to the end of life on Earth, scientists have revealed.

Scientists have warned that another satellite is set to crash land into earth in the next few weeks.

Scientists have discovered a link between changes in solar activity and recent cold temperatures in parts of Europe and North America.

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A spacecraft orbiting Venus has discovered an ozone layer in the planet's atmosphere, similar to that of Earth and Mars.

A team of astronomers have spotted gamma ray emissions coming from the Crab Pulsar far higher than theoretical pulsar models can explain.

September 2011 saw ice levels in the Arctic Sea drop to the second-lowest extent on record, according to data released by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder.