Plans by scientists for astronauts to use water found on the moon to establish colonies human outposts have been put on ice because there is none. New high-resolution radar images of the moon showed no evidence that ice exists in craters at the lunar South Pole.

Analyzing the highest resolution radar-signal images ever made on the moon, planetary astronomers on Wednesday excluded the possibility of ice existing in craters at the lunar south pole.

NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have named two astronauts and two cosmonauts to the next International Space Station crew, known as expedition 15, the U.S. space agency announced on Wednesday.

Seven parties will sign an agreement on the joint implementation of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project next month, said a senior official with the ITER International Fusion Energy Research Project on Tuesday.

The lift-off of a European weather satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has been delayed for another day due to bad weather, Baikonur officials said on Wednesday.

A newly developed vaccine has successfully protected mice against the deadly 1918 Spanish flu virus, U.S. scientists reported on Tuesday.

Chinese scientists are researching a new medical technology which can facilitate earlier diagnoses of diseases such as tumors.

Scientists have claimed that two new vaccine therapies have finally produced protective immune responses against prions in mice, and that such therapies could be further developed to work in humans or livestock.

As demand for clean energy rises around the world, Silicon Valley firms in Northern California are looking to develop solar energy, a report said on Tuesday.

The lift-off of a European weather satellite from the Baikonur space center has been delayed for a day, Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Tuesday.