UN’s “space people” tackle aliens, asteroids, climate

They call them the "people in outer space". But besides stopping extra-terrestrial arms races, this tiny…

Weather scuttles shuttle launch again

NASA scrubbed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on Monday, marking the fifth time the…

Shuttle launch slated for Monday evening

The space shuttle Endeavour carrying Canadian astronaut Julie Payette will make a fifth attempt to lift…

Weather forces NASA to postpone shuttle launch

Heavy clouds near the Kennedy Space Center forced NASA to call off Sunday’s launch of the…

Canadian astronaut Payette to blast off Saturday

If the weather co-operates, Canadian astronaut Julie Payette will make history Saturday as she blasts into…

Massive supernova occurred 11 billion years ago

Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that…

Europe launches study into manned spacecraft scheme

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it had taken an important first step in a tentative…

U.S. manned space flight in doubt 40 years after moon walk

U.S. ambitions to send astronauts back to the moon as a prelude to missions to Mars…

Vatican should learn from Galileo mess, prelate says

The Catholic Church should not fear scientific progress and possibly repeat the mistake it made when…

European rocket hoists biggest-ever telecoms satellite

A European rocket placed the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary orbit, launch operator Arianespace…