"... a vehicle powered by a so-called Mach-Lorentz Thruster [...] could not only make the four lunar trips a day but deliver almost 3000 tons of cargo a year." As long as the theory isn't bu

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"NASA is ready and willing to share the international space station (ISS) with other U.S. government agencies and commercial firms once construction of the $100 billion orbital outpost is finishe

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"Not only will this be the longest artificial structure ever deployed in space, but it will also be the first time that a tether has been used to return a payload from space." Excellent stuf

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"Cool bits at about 10 seconds after launch, and then at about T+3:04, 4:15 on the YouTube timecode, when the stages separate. By T+4:50, you're in space, baby."

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"We invite you to participate in this landmark mission by uploading content to be printed on our spacecraft." That is just so cool - but not too cheap at $35 per square centimeter.

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"For decades, space experts have worried that a speeding bit of orbital debris might one day smash a large spacecraft into hundreds of pieces and start a chain reaction, a slow cascade of collisi

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"Orbit, a damned fine SF&F imprint, has had a record year, recording their highest sales since their inception in 1974 and taking a huge chunk of the UK SF&F books sales for 2006." S

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"Genesis II will carry a “Biobox” - a three-chamber contraption that houses roaches, scorpions, as well as ants [...] Additionally, a high-roller innovation is being flown...Genesis II will tote

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“At this point, we feel we’re ready to move ahead and tackle what will be the largest challenge to date for Bigelow Aerospace…to develop a habitat that will actually be capable of supporting a crew.”

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"After years of debate on how to dispose of rubbish from the International Space Station, the U.S. space agency will allow crew to send certain items of excess or broken equipment into orbit...&q

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"What appear to be flat seas of lunar lava have huge positive gravitational anomalies—that is, their mass and thus their gravitational fields are significantly stronger than the rest of the lun

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"The spacecraft would form a long, cylindrical cloud with a diameter about half that of Earth, and about 10 times longer." And people accuse science fiction of ignoring simpler solutions!

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"ISS EarthKAM is a NASA sponsored program that provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station." ZOMFG! Awesome; great

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"The reason history is littered with suspiciously regular extinctions is all down to the Earth's wobbly orbit, according to research published today." Well, not entirely, but it looks like i

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" ... the road map to space elevator development, outlining what tests and demonstrations need to be done before we can build the first SE." Liftport lays out the agenda. Go for it, guys!

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"An enormous ring of superconducting magnets similar to a particle accelerator could fling satellites into space, or perhaps weapons around the world, suggest the findings of a new study funded b

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" ... it has beamed back images taken from less than 300 kilometres above the planet's surface. The new images were taken on 29 September and show parts of Mars in unprecedented detail."

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"A radically different way to reach outer space -- the space elevator -- may finally be getting off the ground floor thanks to recent huge advances in technology." CNN gets on the space elev

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"NASA says it will announce its decision on whether to send one more space shuttle to service and upgrade the orbital observatory in November." Surely it would be cheaper to fix it than to r

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You think you get some weird stuff in your inbox? Bruce Sterling can top it.

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"Each of the groups that will gather in New Mexico is competing to win a Nasa prize set up to encourage entrepreneurs to start development work on the technology needed to create a space elevator

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Should you find yourself navigating around the solar system near earth, here is a map of all the *known* rocks you might crash into. There's a lot of them, too.

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Interview at Space.com; does what it says on the tin, well worth a read.

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Does what it says on the tin.

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Tinfoil hats at the ready! DARPA has some sneaky satellites on the move, and no-one seems to know for sure what they're for.

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Bad news for the organisations with CubeSats headed for orbit - the booster failed. No details as to the cause yet, nor the fate of the payload.

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That's on top of the $20million fee for getting up to the ISS in the first place, mind you. Damn I want to go and do that...donations accepted via PayPal.

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Looks like that prototype inflatable space-hotel is up and running, all systems go.

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Does what it says on the tin. I can't even think of a decent punchline...what a let-down, eh?

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The makers of duct tape now have advertising copy that will last them until we colonise Mars - "as used by spacewalking astronauts for emergency jetpack repairs!"

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