Earth threatening asteroids measure less than one kilometre (5/8th of a mile) across. Three UK researcher’s signed an agreement with the Pan-Starrs observatory in Hawaii, which houses one of the world’s most advanced telescopes, and …

By peering some 20,000 light years into the star-swarms of the Milky Way’s central bulge, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have turned up 16 possible new planets crossing the faces of their stars, two …

Space ships have come a long way from the Tardis and daleks, which were metal machines looking threatening with sink plungers extruding from their sides.
That was for the 1960’s high tech, this is …

Jim Benson, the founder of a space hardware company SpaceDev, has set up Benson Space Company with the idea of “opening space for all of humanity.”
“A new race to space is on,” California-based …

This morning Anousheh Ansari fell to earth, and in doing so, she achieved her life long ambition. She has just completed ten days in space, becoming the first Muslim in space, the first Iranian and …

Imagine having to be strapped down to attempt a surgical procedure, can you imagine cutting flesh and the blood spurting out and up?
It sounds like the theatre set of a graphic horror movie. This …

A private US space rocket which lifted off from New Mexico malfunctioned before it reached space, organisers have said.
SpaceLoft XL launched at 1414 local time (2014 GMT) from Spaceport America, a desert launch site. …

ASTRONAUT Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper collapsed twice during a welcome home ceremony only a day after returning to Earth from a 12-day mission on the space shuttle Atlantis.
It was Stefanyshyn-Piper’s, first spaceflight and she had to complete …

The Space Shuttle Atlantis has made a night landing at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday finishing off STS-115 which lasted 13 days.
The orbiter landed safely at 6:21:30 a.m. EDT, on runway 33 at …

Following yesterdays report that the Space Shuttle Atlantis had been delayed from Landing due to UFO reports, The folks at NASA have finally given the ‘ok’ for the Shuttle to land on Thursday September 21. …

Well, its been nearly two weeks since the Space Shuttle lifted off and now the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis now have the small matter of a UFO to deal with.
Flight controllers in Houston, …

The spacecraft Cassini-Huygens has discovered ethane clouds using the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer [VIMS] on Saturn’s moon, Titan.
The BBC reports that the spacecraft also suggested that ethane “rain” and “snow” may be falling …

An Iranian-American today became the first female paying passenger astronaut.
Paying $20 million for the trip, she replaced a Japanese businessman considered unfit.
The BBC reports that forty year old Anousheh Ansari blasted off at …

Oops, a spill of toxic liquid potassium hydroxide ocurred this afternoon on the ISS.
The crew smelt toxic fumes and assumed that there had been a fire.
Flight engineer Jeff Williams and commander Pavel Vinogradov reported …

Later today a Russian Soyuz spacecraft is set to blast off with a woman on board who will achieve a hat trick of firsts.
Anousheh Ansari, 40, an Iranian-American telecoms entrepreneur will be the first …

A bloated alien world orbiting a star on the fringes of the Milky Way has baffled astronomers, who believe it is the largest planet discovered.
It is 16 times the diameter of the Earth and …