China bans bad breath in space: report

Bad breath is enough to fail the test to enter China's manned space programme, state media…

Comets not expected to wipe out life on earth

Crashing comets probably won't cause the end of life as we know it, a study said…

Space shuttle Endeavour lands in Florida

The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday after…

Saturn’s ‘day’ five minutes shorter

A day on Saturn is pretty short, and it just got shorter.

Let private firms run space taxis, panel told

The U.S. government should leave the business of launching cargo and people into Earth orbit to…

Space shuttle Endeavour readies return to Earth

The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday to take photographs of…

Earth bears scars of human destruction according to Thirsk

Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk says he is a bit 'saddened' to see the changes in the…

Astronauts launch fourth spacewalk

Two astronauts began a fourth spacewalk Friday to work on the International Space Station orbiting high…

China delays launch of first space telescope to 2012

China has delayed the launch of its first space telescope, designed to detect black holes, by…

Amateur skywatcher finds ‘one in a million’ Jupiter spot

An Australian amateur stargazer who spotted a "one in a million" impact on Jupiter Wednesday told…