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Unlocking the mysteries of the solar system

The prettiest astronauts yet

With $1m to speed it on its way

Famously proposed by Arthur C Clarke, a space elevator is a little closer to reality.

Russia is planning to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft for a manned mission to Mars.

The maiden test flight of NASAs next-generation launch vehicle, Ares I-X has been scrubbed for today (Tuesday) due to adverse weather conditions at the Cape. Flight Director Ed Mango is currently meeting with his senior staff to decide if a second attempt will be made tomorrow or Thursday.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for willing guinea-pigs for an eighteen-month Mars mission. The catch? It's just a simulation.

While mapping the solar system's edge for the first time, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), spacecraft has discovered a 'space ribbon' two billion miles long.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn - by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.

We may like to moan about the weather on this planet, but at least it doesn't rain rocks. It's not so on Corot-7b, though, where simulations indicate that pebbles condense out of the air and rain into lakes of molten lava below.

Just a week after NASA reported evidence that there was probably water on the moon, India's Chandrayaan-1 moon mission has actually found some.

NASA is targeting Tuesday, Oct. 27 for the flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, pending successful testing and data verification. Senior managers made the decision after a meeting Monday at NASA Headquarters in Washington.