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Orbiting the red planet NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has discovered evidence that warm, salty water may flow across Mars during its warmest months.

A new theory suggests the Earth once had a small second moon that was destroyed in a slow motion collision with its "sister".

NASA's is set to launch its Juno spacecraft today, on a mission that will help scientists study the origin and evolution of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet.

British physicists have announced that the theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, just one of multiple bubble universes in a "multiverse," can now be tested.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is beginning the first of it four intensive research orbits, with its initial run around the Vesta asteroid scheduled to begin on 11 August.

NASA has unveiled new plans to land astronauts on a near-Earth asteroid by the year 2025.

NASA's astronomers have detected an asteroid not far from Earth which is moving in the same orbit around the Sun.The 200-300m-wide rock sits in front of our planet at a gravitational "sweet spot", but does not currently poses any threats, scientists said.

NASA's Hubble Telescope has discovered a new fourth moon orbiting the ice-world planet Pluto.

The astronauts aboard the Atlantic space shuttle woke up to a surprise wakeup call from none other than RnB singer Beyonce.

Astronauts continued organizing the unloading of a year's worth of supplies at the International Space Station after NASA said on Monday that a piece of Soviet space debris was unlikely to collide with orbiting lab.

NASA fuelled space shuttle Atlantis for lift-off Friday on the final flight of the 30-year program, defying the stormy weather that threatened to delay the launch, after forecasters insist there still is a 70 per cent chance of thunderstorm and rain.But despite the gloomy forecast and an eve of launch which saw torrential rain and lightning, technicians are still proceeding as if it will take off on time.

Atlantis has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre on the last ever space shuttle mission and despite gloomy weather conditions, the launched took place on time.

She's been in space 32 times since 1985, and orbited the earth 4,648 times, but today will be the last launch of the Atlantis Shuttle, and of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program.

Thunderstorms threatened to delay the last space shuttle launch, set for today, and a lightning strike near the pad briefly caused NASA engineers to question whether the launch should take place at all.

The suspected LulzSec member Ryan Cleary, if found to have taken part in LulzSec's attacks on the U.S., could face up to ten years in jail.

Environmentalists be damned, rather than a future so hot and humid that humans will not be able to survive, the Earth is actually heading towards a 'mini ice age', according to the world's newspapers. Which just goes to show that you shouldn't read today's papers.

US solar physicists announced yesterday evening that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earth, far from facing a global warming problem, is on the opposite headed heading into a mini Ice Age.