It could be the economy, or the looming threat of climate change, but it appears quite a large number of people are prepared to give up the trappings ...
They may have come a long way since the Cold War, but collaboration in space between Russia and the US still have their price - £273 million to be pr...
Buzz Aldrin has launched a once-in-a-lifetime chance for an average Briton to blast into orbit. One UK competition winner and 21 others from around...
Among the many existing reasons not to go into space - loneliness, aliens, inevitable to-the-death battles with intelligent computers - you can now ad...
Recently, I was listening to the story of Felix Baumgartner as I was getting ready to go to work. Baumgartner is an Austrian extreme athlete who was aiming to break the sound barrier in a supersonic skydive over New Mexico. He was planning to jump from a capsule floated 23 miles into the stratosphere by a huge helium balloon, and Chris Evans was getting very excited about it all.
JK Rowling has claimed that she created a cosmic vacancy when she turned down a trip on a spaceship. The Harry Potter author, whose first novel for...
Nasa has released the first full-colour panorama photograph taken by the Mars rover Curiosity. The shot reveals a 360-degree view of the Gale C...
Nasa has lost a key monitoring satellite ahead of an attempt to land a car-sized robot on Mars, which it said will be its "hardest ever" unmanned miss...
The shape of travel to come will be unveiled by Sir Richard Branson on Wednesday when he gives an update on his space tourism plans. Sir Richard wi...
Nasa has revealed the space capsule which it hopes will one day carry astronauts to the surface of Mars. The Orion space capsule might look like th...
China has successfully returned three astronauts - including its first woman in space - to Earth after a 13 day mission to its 'Tiangong' space statio...
China has successfully returned three astronauts - including its first woman in space - to Earth after a 13 day mission to its 'Tiangong' space statio...
Future products that will secure UK industries as pioneers in space technology have been showcased by competition winners in a contest run by the UK S...
The UK space industry risks losing out in the booming sector unless it builds a spaceport, according to the Institute of Directors (IoD). With spac...
The American space shuttle Discovery has made its final journey ahead of retirement at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. T...
I wonder how many other inventors would dare to follow Musk's lead. I guess as space travel is such a small and specialised market, it's a risk which Musk can take, though ultimately extremely lucrative.
Santa has his work cut out on his rounds this year, after three astronauts took off for the International Space Station (ISS) to spend the festive sea...
Space is one of the only scientific topics that has successfully managed to bridge the gap between science and society. It offers the chance to explore not only our past by searching for extra-terrestrial life, but also the possibility to explore the future, and our capabilities to inhabit other solar system bodies and develop interstellar flight.
A malfunction on Virgin Galactic's commercial space travel plane saw the craft "drop like a rock" and nosedive towards earth during a test flight, it ...
