National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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.

India launched its first space research observatory and several U.S. satellites Sept. 28, part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?s drive to expand his country?s influence in the competitive, $300 billion global space industry.

Nasa is going to reveal a “major science finding” from its Mars exploration mission giving rise to rumors that they have found traces of liquid water on the red planet.

People rushed to take photos of the rare eclipse of the supermoon on September 27. NASA says that total eclipses of super full moons are rare and have only occured 5 times in the 1900s (1910, 1928, 1946, 1964 and 1982). The next Supermoon eclipse is due in another 18 years.

About the moon:

Rising over the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece:

World Tourism Day on Sept 27 coincides with the rare supermoon total lunar eclipse, a phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 1982. Over the past 115 years there have been only five of them and the next one is due in 2018.

The moon will be just 387,472 km meaning that it will be 13% larger than normal, making it a sight worth seeing.

When to see it:

For the first time in decades, stargazers are in for the double spectacle of a swollen ?super moon? bathed in the blood-red light of a total eclipse on Sept. 28.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former space shuttle commander, said that the dream of sending a manned mission to planet Mars is closer to reality than ever before.

A Muslim teenager arrested after a Texas teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb won invitations to the White House, Google and Facebook on Sept.16 in a surge of public support.

President Barack Obama congratulated Ahmed Mohamed, 14, on his skills in a pointed rebuke to school and police officials -- who defended his arrest -- amid accusations of Islamophobia.    

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old high school student in Irving, Texas who was arrested in a classroom on Monday after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has attracted admiration from a former secretary of state, a NASA scientist and even US President Barack Obama.

The Pentagon is teaming up with Apple, Boeing, Harvard and others to develop high-tech sensory gear flexible enough to be worn by people or molded onto the outside of a jet.

The rapid development of new technologies is forcing the Pentagon to seek partnerships with the private sector rather than developing its technology itself, defense officials say.