Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.

Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had travelled into [...]

Studies made on some of the 381.7 kg of rocks and other materials gathered during the Apollo missions (much of which is currently stored at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston) proved there is some amount of water on the moon, but there was no knowledge of how much there was and how to extract [...]

Phoenix probe, Nasa’s spacecraft, sent its first pictures from Mars. It landed in the northern polar region of Mars, and began three months of examining a site where that may have frozen water. The first images from the Mars Pheonix Probe showed the space probe in good condition after its 10-month journey.
“Over the next few days, [...]

Brief article highlighting Beidou, the Chinese GPS system.