Space

New pictures from the Cassini spacecraft show peculiar movements in Saturn’s rings. Scientists, who studied the signals from the spacecraft, concluded that its rings rearranged themselves with the help of high speed collisions. Not only this, they are 95 percent composed of water.

Washington -- NASA says it is preparing for the start of the second year of the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice -- Operation IceBridge.

In a first of its kind discovery, a team of astronomers at the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) have discovered an exoplanet, a planet out of our solar system but which is similar to the planets found in our solar system.

Boston -- A NASA-funded study contradicts a previous report that the Amazon rainforests thrive during long droughts.

NASA’s latest discovery gives the first detailed image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The space agency says it is a never seen before image of the planet’s familiar sight.

Pasadena-- NASA says new thermal images from powerful Earth-based telescopes have produced the first detailed interior map of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

Paris -- The European Space Agency says the third of its Automated Transfer Vehicles has been named after the late Italian physicist and space pioneer Edoardo Amaldi.

Cape Canaveral -- NASA scientists discussed options Monday following a problem that occurred during the weekend when space shuttle Discovery's aft fuel tanks were being vented.

Greenbelt -- NASA says it is considering a project that would return a sample from asteroid 1999 RQ36 that might shed light on how the solar system was born.

Washington -- The U.S. space agency says it has awarded a civil and environmental design and engineering contract to a Gainesville, Fla., firm.