It’s been revealed that a space mission was carrying a cargo of dehydrated microscopic lifeforms known as tardigrades.

MORE than 30,000 Americans streamed through the US Capitol Rotunda to pay tribute yesterday to Rosa Parks, filing by her casket in hushed awe of the woman whose defiant act on a city bus inspired the modern civil rights movement.

A hole was blasted out of the side of a comet today as US scientists showed off their sharp-shooting skills 133 million miles from Earth.