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Exomars programme on track for mission
The ExoMars programme is on track to meet all objectives of both the 2016 and 2018 missions.

Soyuz spaceship with 3 astronauts heads to ISS
Russia's Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut has been launched to the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA trains astronauts 'for asteroid mission'
NASA is reportedly training a team of astronauts for a mission to land on an asteroid by the end of the next decade.

'Invisible' planet discovered using 150-year-old technique
Astronomers have discovered what they claim is a "hidden planet" outside our solar system, using a 150-year-old technique used to find Neptune.

Giant asteroid Vesta resembles small planet: NASA
Vesta, the grand old asteroid of our Solar System, resembles more to a small planet or Earth's moon than another asteroid, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has found.

Spacecraft detects light from alien 'Super-Earth'
For the first time, NASA's Spitzer spacecraft has detected light emanating from a previously-found Super-Earth eight times as massive and twice as big as our Earth and lies beyond our Solar System.