First contact with alien civilisation 'by 2031'
Astronomers in Russia say contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation is inevitable, and that aliens will probably look just like humans.
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Houston, we have a cashflow problem
Space experts tell US President Barack Obama that Nasa will have to scrap lunar and Mars missions without a big increase in budget.
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SA reaching to space to boost economy
South Africa aims to become a regional centre for space technology, Naledi Pandor said on Thursday.
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Nasa launches telescope in search of Earth-like planets
The US late on Friday launched a space telescope whose three-year mission is to find Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
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India's space race takes flak
If the country succeeded, it would become only the fourth -- after the United States, Russia and China -- to send a man into space.
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Countdown starts for first Indian lunar mission
India began counting down on Monday to the launch of its first unmanned mission to the moon.
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Sons of Russian, US astronauts unite in orbit
The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a United States astronaut met in space on Tuesday.
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Chinese astronaut takes historic walk in space
Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday, clambering out of China's Shenzhou VII spacecraft.
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Space, the final tourism frontier
The commander of the latest United States shuttle mission on Tuesday welcomed the advent of space tourism.
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Astronauts open up billion-dollar space lab
Astronauts opened up Japan's new billion-dollar space-station lab on Thursday, then got ready for another spacewalk.
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