China said it successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020.The Shenzhou VIII blasted off from the Gobi desert in China's northwest, the state Xinhua news agency said, separating from…

Boeing Co plans to build space taxis at a mothballed space shuttle processing hangar at Kennedy Space Center in central Florida, according to company sources.The company has reached agreement with Space Florida, a state-backed agency working to expand space-related businesses in Florida, to lease…

New infrared observations from NASA telescopes have revealed how the first supernova ever recorded occurred and how its shattered remains ultimately spread out to great distances.The US space agency said Monday its Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) had solved a…

In the currency market, on Wednesday, the rupee weakened to 86.80/85 to the dollar, compared with Tuesday's close of 86.78/85, amid increased import payments.The rupee had firmed in the previous trading sessions on healthy remittances from Pakistanis living abroad, but dealers said a widening…

The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit eastern Turkey last week risen to 596, the government's emergency unit said on Sunday.More than 4,150 people were injured in the 7.2 magnitude quake that shook the eastern Van province near the Iranian border a…

Libya's new rulers said on Thursday they would prosecute the killers of ousted dictator Moamer kadhafi following the international outcry over the circumstances of his death."With regards to Kadhafi, we do not wait for anybody to tell us," said Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman…

A German satellite the size of a car re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Sunday, officials said, adding they did not know yet if debris had hit the Earth.The x-ray observatory, named ROSAT, made its re-entry between 0145 GMT and 0215 GMT on Sunday, the…

A Russian Soyuz rocket successfully blasted off from French Guiana on Friday bearing the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo global positioning system, a much-heralded mission that will redraw commercial competition in space.The launch from Europe's space base in South America was the first…

A bloodied Moamer Kadhafi was seen alive and walking as he was being manhandled by Libya's new regime fighters before the announcement of his death Thursday, in a videotape aired on Arab satellite channels.National Transitional Council fighters circled the 69-year-old ousted strongman, who was…

A British man has become the first person in 3,000 years to be mummified in the same way as ancient Egyptian pharaohs, a new TV documentary claims, after he donated his body to a science experiment.Alan Billis, a 61-year-old taxi driver from Torquay in…