Three Lego figurines are about to boldly go where no man has gone before - to Jupiter's polar orbit onboard the Juno spacecraft.

The 1.5-inch models representing Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and his wife Juno will take their places...

Despite lifting off 135 times, making an appearance in a Bond film, and even its immortalisation in Lego, the famous space shuttle is taking early retirement. On 8 July 2011, the Atlantis orbiter will embark on the very last space shuttle mission bringing...

It's official. The Google Nexus S is space-worthy, after surviving a trip into near space - which is presumably not quite as good as outer space (we wanted to say innerspace but apart from being inaccurate it might be confused with the classic 80s...

Pupils from Landscove C of E Primary School in Devon, UK have shot a potato dressed as Santa into space, inside an empty 2 litre plastic fizzy pop bottle. It managed to make it to 90,000-feet (17 miles) before the helium balloon it was tied to popped.

Thankfully,...

News has recently come in that the Nvidia's 3D Vision Technology is being used in the Mars-500 project.

The third, and longest, stage of the project began on 3 June and involves a group of cosmonauts who are spending 520 days in a hermetically...

Trapped on this, metaphorically speaking, ever shrinking planet there is not one amongst us who has not stared up into the heavens and gazed in awe at the myriad of pin pricks that make up the night sky.

Enter stage left the telescope, a...

Lord Mandelson has brought some excitement to gadget and technology buffs with his words grounding science fiction at the launch of the UK Space Agency.

Despite science minister Lord Drayson's wishes "to see human beings living on Mars'', the...

Now that the International Space Station has been hooked up to the Web, the astronauts onboard have been going Twitter-crazy. One of them - expedition flight engineer Soichi Noguchi - has been sending all manner of Twitpics back to solid ground.

While...

The International Space Station has received a software update that enables something rather magical for the astronauts that inhabit it - access to the world wide web. Which we assume will henceforth be known as the solar-system-wide-web.

A...

Two American MIT students have managed to capture images of the Earth's surface with a home-made kit estimated to cost £90.

Oliver Yeh and Justin Lee's kit included a compact camera, a weather balloon, a mobile phone and hand warmers.

Pocket-lint brought you the news late last week that the US Air Force was having difficulty maintaining the GPS system that powers a million satnavs and smartphones worldwide.

Turns out that everything's actually okay, if you believe the...

That snazzy new smartphone or satnav that you've just bought might start to have problems getting a location lock by 2010, if reports are to be believed that the Global Positioning System is in trouble.

The network of 24 satellites is under...

A new package that allows users to switch "seamlessly" between smartphones, BlackBerrys or Windows Mobile devices to the iPhone has been launched by Californian developer Mark/Space.

The Missing Sync for the iPhone offers migration tools...

If you're preparing for the London Marathon then you know exactly how difficult it is achieving 26.2 miles. Yet, as we reported just a couple of weeks ago, try it 210 miles above earth and circling it at least twice.

Sunita Williams, a flight...