A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts on board took off from Kazakhstan on Monday to join a U.S.-Russian duo who have been manning the International Space Station (ISS) since October.
Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern French valley. The remains found show people where in France 1.57 million years ago, 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Scientists have switched the world's most powerful atom-smasher to standby for two and a half months, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ended the year "in style", CERN said, ...
NASA launched its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite from Califoria's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Monday. By the end of its 10-month mission to map the cosmos, WISE will have taken nearly 1.5 million pictures of the entire sky.
Virgin's billionaire boss Richard Branson has unveiled SpaceShip Two, the Virgin Galactic spaceship that is supposed to carry the first tourists into space and then "feather" them back to Earth, at a cost of around 200,000 dollars.
The British government has decided to shut down a 50-year-old "UFO-hunting" unit run by the Ministry of Defense, while the employee whose job it was to collect evidence of extraterrestrial activity has been moved to another department.
The prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said.The high tech single-seater with the wingspan of an Airbus ...
Japan on Saturday launched a next-generation spy satellite as part of efforts to beef up its surveillance system against the threat of North Korea's missiles, officials said.An H-2A rocket carrying the nation's No.
The space shuttle Atlantis landed back on Earth with its crew of seven astronauts Friday to cap an 11-day mission to the International Space Station.Atlantis commander Charlie Hobaugh and pilot Barry Wilmore touched down as scheduled at 9:44 am ...
A team of US scientists has uncovered the complete genetic code of corn, a discovery that promises to speed development of higher yielding varieties of one of the world's most important food crops.Corn is the third most abundant cereal crop, after ...
Warning of a "cyber arms race," a leading Web security firm said that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States were among countries that have developed "cyber weapons.""McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two ...
The North American Space Agency (NASA) announced that it has discovered "a significant amount" of frozen water in one of the permanently shadowed craters of the moon.
Japanese marine researchers said on Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.The creature was found on October 6 at a depth of 161 metres (528 ...
