Engineers are planning to send a mobile phone in to orbit to see if it still works in space.
Scientists are working on technologies that could one day allow faster-than-light space travel.
Astronomers shed light on the 'dark ages' of space following the Big Bang.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken detailed pictures of a vast storm on the planet Saturn.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted what could be ice volcanoes on one of Saturn's moons.
Croatia's space program is set to land its "Histrohod" rover on the Moon by the end of 2012.
The Deep Impact spacecraft flew by a small comet on Thursday some 13 million miles from Earth.
The Deep Impact spacecraft will soon be making a close approach of the comet Hartley 2.
The first ever commercial spaceport has opened its runway in the New Mexico desert.
A senior NASA official has announced a project to create a new type of interplanetary spacecraft.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has succeeded in its first solo glide flight at 45,000 feet.
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Japan's Hayabusa space probe has picked up particles that could contain alien life.
Data from the Cassini spacecraft has shown that Titan's gravity lifts up part of the ring in a 'tidal wave'.
A company in Russia have unveiled plans to build and launch an orbiting hotel for space tourists.
The UN are appointing an astrophysicist to be the world's representative in the event of alien contact.
Astronomers have succeeded in filming Saturn's magnificant Aurora using the Cassini space probe.
Boeing has announced that it intends to enter the space tourism industry with flights as early as 2015.
Scientists are hopeful that a space telescope to be launched in 2014 will be able to see oceans on other planets.
Future missions involving swarms of spacecraft could see one of the group self-destruct for the good of the collective.