Space Station Tranquility module is finally the chosen name. NASA announced on Wednesday that the new module on the international space station (ISS) will be named Tranquility module, after the Sea of Tranquility where Apollo 11 landed on the moon for the first time.

NASA has delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery, for the fourth time, to avoid any possibility of malfunction in the shuttle. The new launch date has not been announced as yet.

Axel, the new rover developed by the engineers from NASA’s Jet propulsion laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology, will now explore terrains which earlier seemed impossible, said Issa A.D. Nesnas, of JPL's robotics and mobility section.