Results of lab tests on soil samples dug up in the Red Planet's north pole have confirmed the soil contains ice water. Scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) here announced in a press conference Thursday the findings transmitted by the Phoenix Mars Lander, which analyzed disappearing bright chunks in Martian soil Wednesday.

A recent survey done on elementary school students revealed that about one-third of the population thought that Sir Winston Churchill was the first man on the moon, instead of NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong. The survey, gathering a number of 1,400 students aged 4 to 10, was commissioned by the Royal Astronomical Society, in conjunction with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

It's now official: there is no truth to the rumor that space travelers engage in sex. "We do not have such experiments in our country," said Valery Bogomolov, deputy head of the Institute of Bio-Medial Problems, commenting on a widely circulated document on the internet about an alleged 1996 sex experiment made by NASA on 10 sexual positions. "There is no proof. . . that on any mission cosmonauts had sex," he told a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday, Interfax reported. "Cosmonauts, too, are regular people, but. . . I have not heard about any sex in orbit. "

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is now the first brand visible from space. KFC Corp. created a 87,500 square-foot image of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert where they hope to become the favorite for space travelers and aliens alike.

According to a research paper by Penn State graduate student in acoustics Amanda Hanford and Lyle Long, professor of aerospace engineering, the conversation among two people on Mars may be difficult as sound does not travel very far on Mars. The research student, Hanford said in her research paper that, "In studying sound on Mars, the physical properties of sound are the same. Earth and Mars also share some physical similarities. The simulation predicted that sound on Mars has a lower pitch and very short distance. Sound's lower pitch is the result of the differences in the speed of sound. ""When you breathe in a helium balloon and speak, your voice is a high pitch. Assuming you could breathe in carbon dioxide your voice would be a lower pitch," she added.