The Twitter profile of Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi is a great success with at least 118 thousand followers. His popularity is because of his messages and photographs from space.

Rocket launch carrying mouse, two turtles and worms shows country can soon begin manned-space travel, says Ahmadinejad. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Scientists failed to identify a space object of between 10 and 15 meters in diameter, which flew on Wednesday at about 130 thousand kilometers of The Earth’s surface.

NASA had put in orbit on March 6, 2009, from Cape Canaveral, the space telescope ‘Kepler’, who has just released its first results. It has discovered ‘five planets outside our solar system, all very near to their stars and due to this, too hot to be habitable. “

The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis has returned safely to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday, after completing an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

NASA officials announce that the space agency’s latest telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore (WISE) instrument, has finished undergoing preparations, and is currently set for a Friday, November 20, roll-out date.

A company plans to open the first hotel in space in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project.

Astronomers have announced a haul of planets found beyond our Solar System.

Nasa’s attempt to smash two probes into the moon’s surface could prove the presence of water and hint at a faster, cheaper future for space exploration.

Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberté, founder of the Cirque du Soleil blasted off this morning from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a mission to deliver a bit of levity to the International Space Station. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Yesterday afternoon, near 19, the inhabitants of Mendoza, La Pampa, San Luis, and Cordoba saw a meteorite coming down the sky. It finally desintegrated with a loud explosion before it hit the earth. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The U.S. space agency NASA released pictures taken by the new cameras from the Hubble Space Telescope. (see the photos)

Our nearest major galactic neighbor is a cosmic cannibal. And it’s heading this way eventually. Astronomers have long suspected Andromeda of being a space predator, consuming dwarf galaxies that wander too close.

Contact was lost between the International Space Station (ISS) and the ground mission control of the Discovery Shuttle in Houston Texas, for 33 minutes.
The news was reported by Rob Navias, NASA spokesman, who however confirmed that no safety problems had been found on board during the blackout and that contact has been reinstated.
Contact was temporarily [...]

NASA this morning scrubbed the planned launch of space shuttle Discovery due to bad weather at Kennedy Space Center.

Glycine, an amino acid fundamental to protein block building , has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday.

A historical moment took place in space on Tuesday as an astronaut on board the International Space Station sent a tweet to Earth. This was the first time astronauts used social media from space.

Endeavour crew members will complete an inspection of the space shuttle’s heat shield on Thursday, to ensure that the external damage suffered during liftoff does not pose any threat to their safe return to Earth.

The device was going to launch on Saturday, but due weather phenomena the mission was suspended several times.