Astronauts complete their third and final spacewalk of the current shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

The mission to save Kenya’s dwindling medicinal plants

After poor weather thwarted Sunday’s lift-off, the space shuttle Endeavour is fuelled for another launch attempt.

The mission to Saturn leaving UK scientists behind

European nations commit to build the next Jason spacecraft, a key mission to monitor the behaviour of the world’s oceans.

India’s space agency will launch its first manned mission to space in 2016, officials say.

The competition to find the next great European space mission sees three ideas move to the front of the field.

Nasa has chosen three front runners among proposals for the next space mission in its New Frontiers programme.

Seamount mission charts mysteries of the deep

A Nasa satellite mission has weighed the water lost by the US State of California’s heartland since 2003.