- 11 May 2013 16:26 - Reuters
- Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station have begun a spacewalk to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system.
- 24 Apr 2013 11:55 - Haji Mohamed Dawjee
- An astronaut living at the International Space Station has taken South Africa to new heights by tweeting pictures of the country as seen from space.
- 28 Feb 2013 10:29 - Ben Blanchard
- China's next manned space mission will launch between June and August, carrying three astronauts to an experimental space module, says a report.
- 23 Feb 2013 15:52 - AFP
- Opponents of Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi are voting on an online contest to send him where no Islamist leader has gone before: outer space.
- 10 Jan 2013 16:08
- A Spanish photojournalist conjures up an imagined series of what a Zambian space mission might have looked like in her book The Afronauts.
- 13 Oct 2012 16:45 - Sapa-AP
- The 77 000kg Endeavour space shuttle has journeyed 19km to its new home at the California Science Centre where it will feature in a new exhibit.
- 16 Jun 2012 18:14 - Sapa
- Liu Yang (33), who has become the first Chinese female space traveler, said she was doing it on behalf of hundreds of millions of Chinese women.
- 09 Jun 2012 09:28 - Sapa-AFP
- China will launch a spacecraft to conduct its first manned space docking the latest in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station.
- 27 Jun 2011 19:37 - Alissa De Carbonnel
- Astronomers in Russia say contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation is inevitable, and that aliens will probably look just like humans.
- 15 Aug 2009 07:24 - Staff Reporter
- Space experts tell US President Barack Obama that Nasa will have to scrap lunar and Mars missions without a big increase in budget.
- 06 Aug 2009 11:28 - Wendell Roelf
- South Africa aims to become a regional centre for space technology, Naledi Pandor said on Thursday.
- 07 Mar 2009 06:27 - Jean-Louis Santini
- The US late on Friday launched a space telescope whose three-year mission is to find Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
- 01 Mar 2009 00:00 - Randeep Ramesh
- If the country succeeded, it would become only the fourth -- after the United States, Russia and China -- to send a man into space.
- 20 Oct 2008 14:27 - Staff Reporter
- India began counting down on Monday to the launch of its first unmanned mission to the moon.
- 14 Oct 2008 15:08 - Guy Faulconbridge
- The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a United States astronaut met in space on Tuesday.
- 27 Sep 2008 12:19 - Ben Blanchard
- Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday, clambering out of China's Shenzhou VII spacecraft.
- 30 Jul 2008 15:20 - Staff Reporter
- The commander of the latest United States shuttle mission on Tuesday welcomed the advent of space tourism.
- 05 Jun 2008 12:32 - Marcia Dunn
- Astronauts opened up Japan's new billion-dollar space-station lab on Thursday, then got ready for another spacewalk.
