TEHRAN (FNA)- Scientists described ancient water flows and lakes on Mars, and what this might mean about the ancient climate.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's National Space Center Manouchehr Manteqi announced that the center has signed three contracts with the country's Defense Ministry to launch heavy satellites into orbit.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sourena Sattari announced the country's plan to ink an important space contract by the end of the current week.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will likely send a new home-made satellite into the orbit before the end of the current Iranian year (which ends on March 19, 2016), a space official announced on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- NASA announced that it has discovered flowing liquid salt water on Mars during the Red Planet’s summer months, in what is the biggest indication to date that the planet either has already supported life, or can support life in the future.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Manouchehr Manteqi announced that building and orbiting national satellites is his agency's priority.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Bugs are winning out, and that's a good thing according to NASA's Human Research Program. As part of NASA's One-Year Mission, researchers are studying how microbes living on astronauts' skin, inside their bodies and on the International Space Station impact their health. To prepare for a journey to Mars, it is important to understand how long-duration spaceflight affects microorganisms because changes to this complex ecosystem could be detrimental to future missions.

TEHRAN (FNA)- China successfully launched a new model of carrier rocket, Long March-6, at 7:01 a.m. Sunday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi Province.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's renowned space scientist and university professor Ahmad Hatami has been one of the 8 Iranian pilgrims who died in the crane collapse incident in Mecca on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Astronomers successfully peered through the 'amniotic sac' of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time.