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Last Updated: Monday, 26 July, 2004, 22:21 GMT 23:21 UK

Beagle model, Image rights reserved by Beagle 2

'Beagle 3' looks to American ride

Professor Colin Pillinger asks Nasa if it could carry the Beagle instrument package to Mars later this decade.

World's tiniest fish identified

The smallest, lightest animal with a backbone - a fish from Australia's Great Barrier Reef - is described for the first time by scientists.

Probe to 'look inside' asteroids

A concept space mission has been proposed to Nasa that would investigate the structure of two nearby asteroids.

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