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NASA has discovered a new ring orbiting the 6th planet from the sun, Saturn. This ring is an elliptical montrosity that goes around the planet at a range from 3.7 million to 7.4 million miles. NASA reported that the Spitzer...

NASA will announce the discovery of a large field of ice on the moon at the top of the hour. Breaking: According to NASA, water found on the moon. NASA says it has found "significant amount" of water on the...

PASADENA, Calif. — A spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted water ice in several impact craters midway between the north pole and equator — the first time ice so close to the surface has been discovered so far south on the...

From the time he was 21 and working toward his Ph.D., Mike Behrenfeld has been observing phytoplankton -- floating ocean plants that have a global impact. Observing these tiny plants under a microscope, Behrenfeld discovered early on that how you...

Just days after Endeavour's landing, Discovery heads to the pad and astronauts head to Florida for final training. STS-128 is the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station Space Shuttle Discovery . The primary payload will be the...

Crew Due Today for Practice Countdown Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:11:37 PM GMT+0700 The astronauts who will fly Discovery to the International Space Station will fly to NASA's Kennedy Space Center today for several days of training that includes a...

NASA Rovers on Mars are celebrating five years of service to science this month. Spirit landed on Mars on 3 January 2004. A similar vehicle called opportunity alighted on 24 January in the same year. Not bad for two vehicles...

Einstein wowed the world with his earth-shattering theories of relativity that have stood up to experimental scrutiny. Einsteinian intuition also decreed that the universe was a static entity even though the equations suggested otherwise. To resolve this discrepancy, Einstein 'fudged'...

The geyser like jets spurting from Saturn's moon Enceladus have intrigued scientists who wonder whether they are evidence of life on the satellite. But the latest intrigue around the jets is whether they arose courtesy comet collisions with the surface...

Astronomers searching for alien life forms have stumbled upon traces of carbon dioxide in an atmosphere as much as 63 light years away. But if we were keeping our fingers crossed that the gas was the result of combustion by...