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India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft sends a probe to crash land on the surface of the Moon.

An engine firing takes India's Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft into orbit around the Moon.

A new class of minerals found on Mars suggests liquid water stayed on the planet's surface a billion years later than first thought.

A sophisticated X-ray camera built in Oxfordshire has blasted off on board India's first mission to the Moon.

India successfully launches the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft - the country's first mission to the Moon.

The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder travels to Sriharikota in southern India to witness preparations for its lunar mission.

An extremely rare female frog has been spotted for the first time in 20 years.

An incredibly rare frog is filmed for what is thought to be the first time, writes BBC reporter Rebecca Morelle.

Detailed explanation of the Alice machine, one of the key components of the Large Hadron Collider experiment.

Scientists are to hunt for some of the world's rarest frogs in Costa Rica, including the iconic golden toad, last seen 20 years ago.

Dr Tom Pike, from Imperial College London, shares his experiences of being part of the Phoenix Mars probe team.

The Cassini spacecraft returns some remarkable new close-up images of the Saturnian moon Enceladus.

Water was once widespread on Mars, data show, raising the prospect the planet could have supported life.

The smallest planet in the Solar System has become even smaller, studies by the Messenger spacecraft show.

UK scientists are planning a return to the Moon with a mission that will fire darts into the lunar soil.

The US space agency (Nasa) has extended the international Cassini-Huygens mission by two years.

Stunning high-definition movies of the Moon's surface are returned by Japan's Selene probe.

Nasa's Cassini spacecraft made an ultra-close pass of the Saturnian moon Enceladus.

UK astronomers are granted a temporary reprieve over their access to two of the world's finest telescopes.

Chameleons evolved the ability to flash bright colours to show off, rather than blend in, scientists say.

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