Astronauts have set up a new room on the International Space Station (ISS). The work of installing the room took over 6 hours of spacewalk by astronauts and also efforts by robots.

Bangalore: India plans to launch its first manned space mission in 2016 by sending two astronauts for a week-long sojourn in space.

Austrian adventurer Felix Baumgartner has announced his plans to attempt the first supersonic freefall from the edge of space. He will set four records in this process.

The Endeavour space shuttle is getting ready for a predawn launch attempt on 7February on its STS-130 mission to the International Space Station, Nasa has confirmed. This will be Endeavour’s last nighttime shuttle launch before the fleet retires.

The brand new 180-ft tall Falcon 9 rocket is all set for a demonstration launch in the next few months. The US Air Force’s launch schedule for Cape Canaveral shows March 3, 2010 as the scheduled date.

Hercules Constellation hosts the latest exoplanet which was discovered recently. The new planet is four times the mass of Earth making it the second smallest extrasolar or exoplanet to have been found till date.

VSS Enterprise, the Virgin Galactic rocketplane which will take tourists to space for $200,000 a trip, was unveiled today. VSS Enterprise is the name of the Virgin Galactic spaceshiptwo-class suborbital class craft that will carry a total of eight people - two pilots and six passengers.

Launch of GSLV-D3, using India’s first indigenous cryogenic engine, likely by end of December 2009.

The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to build what it calls a ‘robotic rocketplane’ – having the size of a light aircraft – and propel it into space to fly above Mars, the red planet.

Curtain raiser for the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and maybe the final space shuttle mission ever.