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Hubble failure delays repair mission to 2009A critical failure on the telescope has forced NASA to delay its upcoming mission to upgrade the observatory until at least February 2009
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Martian fossils may be hiding inside white rocks
Sedimentary Earth rocks that were dropped into the atmosphere turned white – crucially, the fossils they contained survived the ordealBreaking News - 30 September 2008Fluttering robot could show Mars rovers the way
A robot dragonfly could study the Red Planet from above, flagging up interesting sites for land-based vehicles to investigateTechnology - 30 September 2008Virgin Galactic craft to help monitor climate
The plane designed to carry SpaceShipTwo flies higher than most others, allowing it to study greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphereBreaking News - 30 September 2008Hubble failure delays repair mission to 2009
A critical failure on the telescope has forced NASA to delay its upcoming mission to upgrade the observatory until at least February 2009Breaking News - 30 September 2008Phoenix finds evidence of past liquid water on Mars
The ice underneath NASA's Mars lander might once have been a puddle of standing waterBreaking News - 29 September 2008Private rocket achieves orbit on fourth try
After three failed attempts, the private space firm SpaceX has successfully launched its Falcon 1 rocket into orbitBreaking News - 29 September 2008China celebrates success of third crewed spaceflight
The country's third human space flight ended successfully on Sunday – the mission was the first to include a spacewalkBreaking News - 29 September 2008Mars iron is ideal for building future bases
The elemental iron that peppers the surface of Mars is not rusty and could be a perfect construction material for future inhabited basesNews - 27 September 2008Space 'taxis' could cut the cost of spaceflight
With the shuttle soon to retire, NASA is looking to commercial spacecraft to lower the cost of ferrying cargo and crew to the space stationTechnology - 27 September 2008Giant impact explains Mars's wonky magnetic field
Tying together the odd surface geology of the Red Planet with its south-heavy magnetic field indicates that a collision could have caused bothBreaking News - 26 September 2008
