Participants from Austria, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain simulating life on the Red Planet to perfect the survival skills needed for eventual Mars mission

Rocket scientist Avi Har-Even, 84, succumbs to wounds sustained when rioters torched Efendi Hotel at peak of Arab-Jewish violence last month

Avi Har-Even led country's space program, was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize; now fighting for his life amid Jewish-Arab violence

Retired space pioneer Haim Eshed said aliens visited Earth, made deals with humanity; Isaac Ben-Israel thinks he went too far, but fascination with extraterrestrial life is legit

Dido-3 nanosatellite is one of 53 spacecraft from 13 countries soaring into the cosmos on the back of a Vega rocket

Micro-satellite weighing 160 kilos has projected 2023 launch; it will operate in ultraviolet light to answer 'some of the big questions in astrophysics'

Diary that survived space shuttle crash displayed alongside and compared to fragments of biblical Book of Enoch