Quasicrystals were thought impossible to occur naturally until geologists came across some in Russia.
China has declared plans to land a man on the moon and to build a space station by as early as 2020.
Russia's space endeavours haven't gone to plan lately as another Soyuz rocket fails after lift-off.
The failed Russian Mars probe is due to crash back down to Earth as early as January next year.
The stricken Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is likely to fall back down to Earth as early as next January.
If an intelligent alien civilization has ever sent unmanned probes to Earth, could we recover them ?
Russia's new $170M Phobos-bound spacecraft suffered equipment failure within minutes of lifting off.
After a 15-year break from space exploration, Russia is sending a spacecraft to Mars' moon Phobos.
The crew of six had spent 520 days confined to a simulated Mars spacecraft situated in Moscow.
A US space executive is concerned that China will stake a claim on the moon before the US does.
Refuelling stations could be placed in orbit to allow departing spacecraft to fill up before heading out.
A star so cold that you could go for a walk on it has been found by the Spitzer space telescope.
A very thin ozone layer has been discovered around the planet Venus by the Venus Express spacecraft.
If mankind were to develop interstellar space travel, where in the galaxy should we go first ?
The European Space Agency will send a spacecraft to within 42 million km of our star.
Michiel Mol and airline KLM are joining forces to develop a 13,750mph passenger spacecraft.
China's space agency has successfully launched their first space laboratory, Tiangong-1.
The former astronaut condemned the state of the space program as "embarrassing" and "unacceptable."
NASA is offering to fund a private company who can provide manned trips to and from the space station.
The unmanned module will later join with another module to test docking procedures in space.