So Wayne Rooney has become the first Premier League footabller to reach 10 million followers on Twitter.

Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger "really disliked each other intensely for 20 years."

Ireland can turn the weather disasters of 2012 to its advantage.

The United States agreed to notify other nations before it launches most ballistic missile tests or satellites, in a measure that builds on a landmark arms agreement with Russia and is meant to encourage Moscow to reciprocate.

NASA has detected the brightest cosmic explosion recorded — a massive burst of energy 7.5 billion light years away that could be seen with the naked eye from Earth, the US space agency said.

THE US space agency said it has once again delayed the launch of the shuttle Atlantis that is to carry a European space laboratory to the International Space Station.

Homer Stewart, an early pioneer of rocket research who helped develop the first successful US satellite, Explorer I, has died aged 91.

Two US government agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator says.

Schoolchildren today took the first small step towards launching an Irish astronaut into space within the next 20 years.

A former Nasa inspector has been accused of lying about inspecting crucial parts on the space shuttle Discovery before and after the Columbia disaster that killed seven astronauts and grounded the entire orbiter fleet.

A satellite designed to test two fundamental predictions made by Albert Einstein about the universe is ready for launch, 45 years after it was first proposed, Nasa and Stanford University officials said.

Nasa plans to announce “significant findings” about the history of water on Mars discovered by its Opportunity rover.

As Nasa scientists struggled to revive their ailing Mars rover, they also began to prepare for the landing of its twin, which is scheduled to touch down on the other side of the Red Planet late tonight.

If Nasa returns astronauts to the moon and then takes aim at Mars, the US space agency will have to go back to the drawing board to get the job done.

Scientists marvelled at crisp photographs of the surface of Mars while the NASA rover that took them switched from black-and-white to colour as it continued to send back images of the pancake-flat plain where it landed.

Nasa’s Spirit rover probe landed on Mars today in search of signs that the planet was once capable of supporting life.

A Nasa spacecraft was today closing in on Mars, carrying a six-wheeled vehicle that is to roam the Red Planet’s rocky surface in search of geologic evidence that Mars was once suitable for life.

AN American space probe has entered the shimmering tail of a comet and is collecting hundreds of dust particles which will be returned to Earth for analysis.

An American space probe has entered the shimmering tail of a comet and is collecting hundreds of dust particles which will be returned to Earth for analysis.

The US space agency plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to determine whether three of Jupiter’s icy, planet-sized moons have the potential to harbour life.

A look at NASA's chequered history.

Nasa is making plans to return the space shuttle to orbit as early has the autumn and has instructed engineers to be prepared to make any “corrective actions” recommended by the board now investigating the Columbia tragedy.

DISCLOSED e-mails inside NASA showed senior engineers worried a day before the Columbia disaster that the shuttle’s left wing might burn off and cause the deaths of the crew, a scenario remarkably similar to the one investigators believe actually occurred.

Nasa scientists are struggling to get a tape recorder to work so they could retrieve some of the final data gathered by the ageing Galileo spacecraft.

Nasa has discovered a fuel-line crack in its newest space shuttle today, the same potentially dangerous problem affecting the rest of the fleet.

The launch of space shuttle Columbia will be delayed until engineers determine the cause of minuscule cracks found on two other shuttles, the US space agency said.

Nasa has delayed the liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour yet another day, to Wednesday.

A Nasa spacecraft captured dozens of images of a comet during a weekend flyby, providing scientists only the second glimpse ever of the core of one of the glowing bodies of dust and ice.

Nasa's solar-powered flying wing has soared past previous altitude records for non-rocket powered aircraft.

A long, thin flying wing intended to fly higher than any unmanned aircraft ever has taken off on its first solar-powered test flight.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed in the Mojave Desert last night after three days of bad weather prevented the ship from returning to its Florida home port.