3.2 billion km from Earth, astronomers have found a new minor planet; some consider it a comet.

NASA has released snaps of Martian dust. The new pictures were taken using Phoenix's on-board atomic force microscope.

Due to lack of additional funds and technical issues NASA has abandoned to fly any new spaceship by 2013.

According to Chandra Wickramasinghe, a globally renowned astrobiologist, there is a contemporary life in Red Planet.

NASA has claimed that ice found on the planet in June by the Phoenix Mars Lander shows that there is water in the planet.