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...

Space exploration is an expensive business - the average Space Shuttle launch cost a whopping £295 million. Private space company SpaceX is lookin...

The private space company SpaceX has completed the latest test of its new reusable rocket. The 'Grasshopper' is a 10 storey rocket which is able to...

A privately operated SpaceX Dragon cargo has docked with the International Space Station after surviving a potentially critical failure. The unmann...

SpaceX Targets 2015 To Put Paying Customers In Orbit...

The billionaire founder of the private space company SpaceX wants to build a colony for 80,000 people on Mars. At a talk given at the Royal Aeronau...

The first private commercial delivery in space has been made at the International Space Station. Shipping charge? About a billion dollars. T...

The launch of the first private mission to resupply the International Space Station looked like it went off perfectly on Monday. But a new video a...

The SpaceX Dragon capsule has successfully returned to Earth on Thursday after a mission to restock the International Space Station. The capsule t...

With Earth's horizon and thin line of atmosphere in the background, the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft has never looked more beautiful. After...

The International Space Station's Expedition 31 crew grappled and attached SpaceX's Dragon capsule to the space station on Friday, marking a new era f...

SpaceX has successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule at 3:44 AM eastern time in the US carrying the ashes of Star Trek's Scotty, ac...

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.