British astronaut Tim Peake is to go into space a second time.

"If I got to space I'd figure out how to go to Mars and live there."

British astronaut Tim Peake will tomorrow give his first press conference since returning to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).

USA: A mother duck has grown attached to a Michigan primary school’s courtyard, returning each year to lay her eggs and then walk the hallways with her ducklings — with the help of students and staff — to get to a nearby pond.

Hours after a US cargo mission ended in flames, a Russian supply ship arrived at the International Space Station with a load of fresh supplies.

Everyone, wave - they might be watching us right now.

No vine or time-lapse can compete with one shot in space. The most recent from the ISS is just as cool as all the rest.

Oh my. A vial of whisky which has spent three years maturing on the International Space Station is ready to come home to one hell of a homecoming.

This beautiful timelapse video was created from photographs taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS).

Lack of sleep was one of the many hazards of space travel not explored in the blockbuster movie Gravity.

A cosmic mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a cherry tree grown from a seed that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected — and with very surprising flowers.

A Russian space capsule carrying the Sochi Olympic torch and three astronauts has returned to Earth from the International Space Station today in a flawless landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

A desktop printer which can make 3D plastic models is going on sale here next week for under €1,500.

Transition year students are being invited to look to the stars as part of a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to design an experiment and test it in space.

SUCCESSION: it can be a positive word; a mixture of succeed and session.

Another great shot of Ireland from space, taken from the International Space Station (ISS).

Astronauts who spend months in space become as physically weak as 80-year-olds, a study has found.

A metal clip that broke off Discovery’s rudder poses no danger for tomorrow’s re-entry and landing, the Space Shuttle’s crew heard today.

NASA yesterday delayed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis until January after a gauge in the fuel tank failed for the second time in four days.

Billionaire software engineer Charles Simonyi, on the verge of blasting off as the world’s fifth paying private space traveller, said today he hopes his journey will help develop civilian space flights.

VOLUNTEERS are currently trying to save the life of one beautiful baby seal — left for dead by the winds that battered the west coast this winter.

Three space explorers including American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari today began getting reacquainted with their home planet, undergoing medical checks and coping with the unfamiliarity of gravity.

A unique Irish experiment into the sleep patterns of astronauts, devised by two young University of Limerick researchers, will be launched into space this weekend.

US millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen and a two-man Russian-American crew returned from the international space station to Earth early today in a lightning-swift, bone-jarring descent.

A RUSSIAN spacecraft docked flawlessly and ahead of schedule at the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, delivering an American space traveller and a new two-man Russian-American crew.

A Russian rocket roared into space today in a burst of flame, launching the world’s third space tourist, US millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen, and a US-Russian crew on a two-day trip to the international space station.

Nasa’s top official said today the future of US participation in Russian space flights was in doubt.

IT USED to be that a trip to Africa or Antarctica qualified as an exotic tourist destination.

Russia’s Soyuz TMA-2 space capsule today successfully docked with the international space station and transferred US astronaut Edward Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

A Russian space official today said US manned space flights could be grounded indefinitely following the loss of the shuttle Columbia and suggested that Russian Soyuz rockets should be used to ferry crews back and forth to the International Space Station, a news agency reported.

A heating problem in a critical water drainage line loomed over today’s planned launch of the US space shuttle Atlantis, threatening again to delay a British born man’s bid to fly into space.

Space shuttle Discovery has linked up with the International Space Station.