MOSCOW - A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals returned from a month's mission in orbit on Sunday with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned flight to Mars.Russian Mission Control said the Bion-M craft landed softly with the help of a ...

  MOSCOW   Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has marked his upcoming departure from the International Space Station by singing a cover version of David Bowie’s classic song “Space Oddity” recorded on the orbiting laboratory. Hadfield, who become a global star during his ...

WASHINGTON: Nasa said it will pay $424 million more to Russia for giving US astronauts a lift to the International Space Station. The hefty bill includes the training and transporting of six astronauts to and from the ISS in 2016 and the first half of 2017 in Russian Soyuz spacecraft. That comes ...

MOSCOW: Russian astronauts will take an unlit Olympic torch on a space walk ahead of the country's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the deputy head of the Russian space agency said Sunday."It will not be a copy but exactly the same as the torch at the Olympics," deputy head of Russia's ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - A Russian rocket carrying a capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals blasted off Friday on a month-long orbital mission that should pave the way for manned flights to Mars.Live footage on the Roscosmos space agency website showed the Soyuz lifting off ...

MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin on Friday unveiled a new $50 billion drive for Russia to preserve its status as a top space power, including the construction of a brand new cosmodrome from where humans will fly to space by the end of the decade. Fifty-two years to the day since Yuri Gagarin ...

ISLAMABAD – The International Day of Human Space Flight will be marked tomorrow across the globe including Pakistan. As a day that is epic in every sense of the word and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first female flight in space, the theme of year 2013 would be “Women and ...

ISLAMABAD - Lack of proper parking facilities near Federal Government Services Hospital (Polyclinic) are creating problems for the patients and their attendants that is worsening with every passing day.The Polyclinic is the second major hospital of the city, accommodating a large number of ...

LOS ANGELES (ES) - Tom Cruise would pay to go into space. The 50-year-old star is interested in Virgin Galactic’s planned commercial space missions - where ordinary people can pay $200,000 to fly outside of the earth’s atmosphere - as he always thought intergalactic travel would be more ...

Once you've been to both poles, skydived over Mount Everest and set up your country's first consulate in Monaco, the question is: what next?For 37-year-old explorer Namira Salim the answer is easy -- become the first Pakistani to go into space.Her flight with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space ...

FAISALABAD - The World Space Week, an international celebration of the contribution that space science and technology makes to the betterment of the human condition, is being observed at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad.The World Space Week activities at the university include birds show, ...

KARACHI  - The inaugural ceremony of the World Space Week, organised by Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco), began here on Thursday.It was held at the National Centre for Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics at Suparco headquarters here.Pir Mazharul Haq, Sindh ...

KARACHI  - The World Space Week, an international celebration of the contribution that space science and technology makes to the betterment of the human condition, will also be marked in 10 cities of Pakistan including Karachi.This was stated by an official of the Pakistan Space and Upper ...

PARIS (AFP) - Large, plant-eating dinosaurs were already in decline by the time a space rock smashed into Earth 65 million years ago and ended the reptiles’ long reign, a study published on Tuesday says.The findings by scientists in the United States and Germany do not dispute the mass ...

WASHINGTON - She has been the US secretary of state, a senator and nearly became president, but Hillary Clinton joked Thursday that she might want to try another role - space tourist. Welcoming to the State Department the British tycoon Richard Branson, Clinton hailed the space tourism pioneer for ...

LOS ANGELES “John Carter,” the 3D space adventure film that opens on Saturday, was supposed to be the Walt Disney Co’s latest franchise movie, a blockbuster on par with “Cars” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” that generates profits beyond the film to ...

WASHINGTON - The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to land people on the Moon now depends on Russia for its manned space flights. At 9:47 a.m. on February 20, 1962, on the ...

KOUROU, French Guiana - A lightweight rocket aimed at securing Europe a stake in the market to launch small satellites lifted off from Kourou space base on its maiden flight on Monday. Vega, whose development has cost more than a billion dollars, raced into the sky from the launch site in French ...

BERLIN A sci-fi black comedy about Nazis from the moon invading Planet Earth is one of the hottest tickets at the Berlin film festival, which is better known for its gritty political fare. “Iron Sky”, a B-movie spoof drawing the crowds at the 11-day event in the German capital, imagines ...

MOSCOW  - Russia’s space agency on Tuesday blamed the effect of cosmic radiation for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, which crashed over the Pacific Ocean earlier this month.“The most likely reason in the commission’s opinion is the local influence of heavy charged ...

MOSCOW - Russia is set to postpone the next two manned launches for the International Space Station (ISS) for several weeks due to technical problems with the Soyuz spaceship, an industry source told Interfax Friday.The source told Interfax that the Soyuz TMA-04M vessel had not withstood tests to ...

A woman in New Zealand is auctioning tattoo space on her own bum. Tina Beznec, 23, claimed that she is struggling financially after being made redundant twice over the past year. The auction, which will close next Friday (January 20), has already attracted bids of more than NZ$10,000 (£5,200 ...

Space junkies were treated to a marquee year in 2011, thanks in part to powerful new telescopes that let astronomers peer into previously unseen parts of the universe. From potentially habitable new worlds to a crystallised planet that may very well be one gigantic diamond, a roundup of the ...

BEIJING (AFP) - China said Thursday cleaner fuel will power its next-generation rockets, which will launch heavy cargoes into space, bringing nearer plans to build a space station and put a man on the moon.In a white paper outlining its ambitious space programme’s five-year plan, the China ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A giant airplane that can in mid-flight launch a rocket carrying cargo and humans into orbit is the future of space travel, billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said on Tuesday. The first test flight of the ambitious venture by Allens new company ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - One of the last surviving architects of the Soviet space programme that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit half a century ago died on Wednesday, officials said. He was 99. Boris Chertok, who helped design the countrys first ballistic missiles, was a close colleague of the Soviet rocket ...

BEIJING (AFP) - China said Tuesday it will launch its Tiangong-1 space module later this month, marking its first step towards building a Chinese space station. The Asian giant sees its space programme as a symbol of its global stature, growing technical expertise, and the Communist Partys success ...

The first human-like astronaut robot - Robonaut 2 or R2 - has awakened at the International Space Station - and already started tweeting. Those electrons feel GOOD One small step for man, one giant leap for tinman kind, said the robots first tweet. R2 was brought to the ISS in February 2011 on ...

TWO teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. Looking from a distance of 30 billion trillion miles away into a quasar-one of the brightest and most violent objects in the cosmos - the researchers, led by scientists at the ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - A giant new Russian space telescope on Saturday unfurled its dish-like antenna which will observe radio waves from galaxies and black holes billions of light years away. The operation to deploy the 10-metre-diameter antenna of the Spketr-R telescope, which was launched into orbit on ...