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Turkish televangelist Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü, popularly known as "Cübbeli" Ahmet Hoca (Robed Ahmet Hoca), has raised eyebrows by claiming that playing chess is more sinful than gambling, daily Hürriyet reported on Jan. 2.

Ünlü said chess players were "cursed" and claimed that "most people who played chess are liars."  

The last unknown part on earth, the South Pole, has finally been surveyed. European scientists have used instruments to the region to map its hidden depths. Known as PolarGAP, the project was largely funded by the European Space Agency (Esa) to gather measurements over an area of Earth that its satellites cannot see, as they generally only fly up to about 83 degrees in latitude.

The European Space Agency’s new Mars orbiter just sent back its first high-resolution images of the Red Planet, and the view is amazing.

The European Space Agency (Esa) is getting ready to put a probe on Mars.
Its Schiaparelli robot will attempt the risky descent to the surface in the coming hours, after a 500 million km journey from Earth.
The touchdown is regarded as a dress rehearsal for a much more important venture in four years’ time when Esa will bid to place a very expensive rover on the planet.

After Europe terminates its Rosetta mission, the world's first-ever orbit and landing on a comet zipping through space, what can we look forward to next in the exploration of faraway frontiers?  

The European Space Agency has published on Wednesday a map of the Milky Way that contains more than 1 billion stars as part of a project to create a 3D map of the galaxy.

Two robotic spacecraft on March 14 began a seven-month journey to Mars as part of a European-Russian unmanned space mission to sniff out leads to life on the Red Planet.

Here’s the NASA announcement of of its ground-breaking discovery:

“A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures in the Red Planet’s atmosphere.

A Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts successfully launched towards the International Space Station on Sept. 2, marking the 500th manned launch in space travel history.

A comet streaking through space with a European robot lab riding piggyback will skirt the Sun this week, setting another landmark in an extraordinary quest to unravel the origins of life on Earth.