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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Reuters) - A larger than previously reported debris field from China's antisatellite test in January has boosted risks to spacecraft in a wide range of orbits, the U.S. Air Force Space Command said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Evidence of water has been detected for the first time in a planet outside our solar system, an astronomer said on Tuesday, a tantalizing find for scientists eager to know whether life exists beyond Earth.

NASA has signed for $719m worth of extras on its contract with Russian space authorities for "crew and cargo services" until 2011.

The latest space tourist has reached the International Space Station. Billionaire Charles Simonyi docked with the ISS yesterday evening (GMT) after lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 17:31 GMT on Saturday.

Charles Simonyi is the fifth space tourist to hitch a ride on Russia’s space taxi at a cool US $25 million, but despite the US ordering Soyuz capsules, there are fears Russia could lose the space race.

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - U.S. software mogul Charles Simonyi and two Russian cosmonauts blasted into orbit on Saturday aboard a Russian spaceship watched by Simonyi's friend, lifestyle guru Martha Stewart.

Physicists have been hearing this afternoon about attempts by UK astronomers to find evidence of alien life - buried in over 2000 hours of archived telescope data.

Ever read through science fiction novels or sci-fi TV shows and movies and wanted to travel amongst the stars yourself? Billionaire space tourists and NASA astronauts might be the ones up there today, but everyday human spaceflight is most definitely the future.

China is planning to send a nuclear powered rover to the moon in 2012 on its first unmanned mission to our natural satellite.

China is developing impressive high-tech military capabilities, according to analysis given to an American congressional commission. And, unsportingly, the inscrutable communists refuse to tell anyone what they're up to.

Astronomers using the Spitzer space telescope have discovered that, contrary to expectations, twin-star systems are actually more likely to have indictors of planetary systems than single stars are.