India is well on the way to joining the select group of nations to place a spacecraft on the moon.

An experiment can be flown into space, recovered, and provided back to young experimenters for as little as US$2000.

NASA recently changed its slogan in an attempt to better articulate it's role for the American people. WIRED magazine wants to know what YOU think the new slogan should be.

Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and creating an online digital archive of all the original Apollo flight films. Through this online interface, users may browse through the archive and download any of the images.

How good are you at staying sane? Does 520 days in a simulated Mars expedition module with five other crew members sound like a challenge? Then go for it, but beware, there are thousands of others who think they can make the grade too - and this isn't even a TV show, this is a real ESA project. Scientific experience, and a command of English and Russian are required.

The Planetary Society is conducting a competition to design a mission to rendezvous with and "tag" a near-Earth asteroid.

Anousheh Ansari has been officially named to the Soyuz TMA-9 primary crew. The first female spaceflight participant will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 14.

N.S. signs private launch facility deal Space station flights planned by 2009

China plans to send a robotic explorer to the Moon; the UK wants to help.

Burt Rutan talks with Space.com about the next step in private space craft.

We've known for a while about "planemos" - planetary-mass objects not orbiting a star. However, this is the first time two such bodies have been found orbiting one another.

New images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal Saturn's largest moon, Titan, to be the only body in our solar system other than Earth with lakes on its surface.

MIT engineers and scientist colleagues have a new vision for the future of Mars exploration: a swarm of probes, each the size of a baseball, spreading out across the planet in every direction.

Tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) now have the option of adding a 90-minute spacewalk to their trips for an extra $15 million.

Some interesting pictures of Baikonur, site of many historic launches.

An experimental spacecraft bankrolled by real estate magnate Robert Bigelow successfully inflated in orbit Wednesday, testing a technology that could be used to fulfill his dream of building a commercial space station.

A circular magnetic sled could fling microsatellites into space cheaply.

The ESA is now testing its prototype rover for the ExoMars mission planned for 2011. ExoMars is the first step in the Aurora project which aims to land humans on Mars by 2030. This BBC News article has a link to video footage.

Under an accord between the countries' space agencies, India's first unmanned lunar mission will carry two scientific payloads from the US agency, Nasa.

Earlier this year, astronomers reported that a second "red spot" - a giant storm - had appeared on Jupiter. Already famous for having a large red spot that is a storm that has been raging for at least 400 years, Jupiter has a treat in store for planet watchers this July. Red Spot Jr. is sneaking up on the bigger storm.