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It was the first flight for the California-based company since a rocket failure in June

SpaceX will attempt to land first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket in an upright position on solid ground

Space probe is on its way to rendezvousing with a far away asteroid, in quest to study the origin of the solar system

The Falcon rocket will carry 11 satellites for the US company Orbcomm into low-Earth orbit

The rocky planet is slightly larger than the Earth and, like Venus, its surface is too hot to support liquid

Researchers believe that the loss of ions to space was a 'significant player' in changing Mars' climate

Boeing has however, received a NASA contract to send astronauts to the ISS aboard its CST-100 Starliner capsule

The commander of the 1971 Apollo 15 mission wore the Bulova Chronograph while conducting experiments on the Moon

The US is 'closer to sending American astronauts to Mars than at any point in our history,' said NASA administrator

The two satellites were successfully placed in orbit, the space programme's operator Arianespace says

The mission will be launched before 2020 and aims to land a probe on a part of the moon never visible from earth

This time it took two days to reach the ISS, rather than a six-hour approach usually taken in recent years

The tower will be 20 times higher than Burj Khalifa, allowing astronauts to take an elevator part way into orbit

The project will use some of the biggest telescopes on Earth, searching far deeper into the universe than before

The first close-up views of Pluto show mountains made of ice and a surprisingly young, crater-free surface

It will take 16 months for New Horizons to transmit back the images and measurements taken during its pass by Pluto