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Discovery relief mission is go

En route to ISS, toilet spares aboard
Space • 31 May 21:57

ISS toilet spares stowed and good to go

Discovery relief mission blasts off tomorrow
Space • 30 May 11:29

ISS toilet fails to suck

Cross-legged astronauts request spares
Space • 28 May 12:09

Phoenix prepares to flex its muscles

Cyber limb extends today
Space • 28 May 09:59

European manned spaceship design unveiled in Berlin

Bound to be used - as bargaining tool in Moscow, at least
Space • 28 May 09:52

Phoenix beams back Martian postcards

In 'great shape' following successful landing
Space • 26 May 08:10

NASA's Phoenix braces for Sunday touch-down

So far, so good for Martian gig
Space • 23 May 10:23

Dutch boffin, astronaut in space-sickness breakthrough

Space-flying Dutchman and PhD student team vs astronausea
Space • 22 May 08:55

European manned spaceflight plan proposed

Get into this cargo container, astronauts told
Space • 15 May 06:02

Scientists discover galaxy's youngest supernova

Victorian stellar explosion
Space • 14 May 20:54

Vatican star watcher says aliens may be out there

ET spiritus sancti
Space • 14 May 11:16

NASA bites nails over Phoenix landing

Lander's Red Planet encounter looms
Space • 14 May 09:25

MoD begins full UFO-files public release

Alien puppet regime starts coverup propaganda dump
Space • 14 May 09:04

Shuttle astronauts: Aliens are definitely out there

Haven't personally seen any - it's more of a feeling
Space • 12 May 09:42

NASA invites you to travel to the Moon

Well, your name at least
Space • 6 May 10:51

Added green burden could ground flying cars for good

Analysis Get off my flying car, hippies!
Space • 4 May 07:02

'Space gemstone' meteorite crashes at auction

Buyers shun $2m rock for dino dung
Space • 1 May 08:58

Astroboffins moot massive Moon-mirror heliograph

How to catch ET's eye
Space • 29 Apr 14:30

Natasha Henstridge braces for Impact

Dwarf star hits Moon, Earth has bad hair day
Space • 28 Apr 14:44

Second Galileo test sat now in orbit

GIOVE-B lifts off after long delays
Space • 28 Apr 09:50

NASA researching 'nanosats' for orbiting 5G space network

Sarah Connor never easier to find
Space • 26 Apr 00:10

Colliding galaxies mark Hubble anniversary

New set of galactic pile-up snaps released
Space • 24 Apr 15:24

Korean astronaut recounts 'ballistic' Soyuz re-entry

'At first I was scared', admits Yi So-Yeon
Space • 21 Apr 13:21

ISS Expedition 16 crew back on terra firma

Soyuz capsule touches down in Kazakhstan
Space • 21 Apr 08:57

Schoolboy's asteroid-strike sums are wrong

German kid saw 1 in 450 chance of Apophis apocalypse
Space • 16 Apr 11:06

Canada.gov blocks sale of space company to US

Wants to keep timeshare rights on Arctic spy-sat
Space • 14 Apr 13:15

NASA's Phoenix closes on Red Planet

Arctic touch-down on 25 May
Space • 11 Apr 08:58

Soyuz capsule docks with ISS

Expedition 17 runs on rails
Space • 10 Apr 15:23

US will sky spy-sat to eye spy-sats

Watch out for the watcher-watcher
Space • 10 Apr 14:48

NASA gets intimate with Phobos

New HiRISE snaps of Martian moon
Space • 10 Apr 10:00

Korea's first astronaut heads for ISS

Historic 10-day gig
Space • 8 Apr 12:44

Surrey Satellite to be bought by EADS Astrium

UK space spinoff joins Eurofighter/Airbus combine
Space • 8 Apr 08:59

Jules Verne mates with ISS

ESA hails successful docking
Space • 3 Apr 16:46

Richard Branson dupes entire wireless industry with Google on Mars gag

CTIA Wireless 'Virgle, my a**'
Space • 2 Apr 02:20

Galaxy's smallest known black hole discovered

Sand kicked in face, but compacted into infinite density
Space • 1 Apr 21:35

Jules Verne gets intimate with ISS

Successful approach to within 11 metres
Space • 1 Apr 09:03

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