Brazil’s first man in space landed back on Earth in the freezing Kazakh steppe today after a nine-day visit to the international space station.

A new reality TV show is aiming to pull off the biggest hoax in TV history - by persuading a group of Britons that they have been blasted into space.

A Russian space capsule carrying an Italian, a Russian and an American hurtled safely home to Earth from the International Space Station today, landing softly on the marshy Central Asian steppes in the early-morning darkness.

Casino operator Stanley Leisure today unveiled plans to bring a slice of Las Vegas to Yorkshire in England in a move that could also create more than 1,000 jobs.

Would-be space traveller Gregory Olsen remains optimistic that his flight to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket will go ahead even though it is temporarily on hold due to an undisclosed medical issue.

Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on the space station finished packing tonight and crammed into a tiny Soyuz capsule to return to Earth.

’N SYNC singer Lance Bass has been asked to leave Russia’s cosmonaut training programme and will not be the world’s third space tourist, a Russian space official said yesterday.

’N Sync singer Lance Bass has been asked to leave Russia’s cosmonaut training programme and will not be the world’s third space tourist, a Russian space official said today.

NSync star Lance Bass's space voyage has hit a hitch over payment for the $20m (€20.26m) trip.

NSync's Lance Bass is at the Russian Space Agency's cosmonaut training centre as he tries to become the next space tourist.

Russia’s top space official says his agency has wrapped up a deal with a South African Internet tycoon to fly to the International Space Station.

Space tourist Dennis Tito is preparing for his return to the pull of gravity and the glare of celebrity.

The fantasy of taking a holiday in outer space becomes a reality on Saturday when a US multi-millionaire blasts off to become the world’s first space tourist.