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Engineers claim super-fast jet could streak attain hypersonic speeds of Mach 6.

Russian Cosmonauts carry Olympic torch on first-ever spacewalk ahead of Sochi Winter Games

An unexplained sphere described by Nasa as 'weird and freakish' with shooting jets of matter was spotted in the solar system.

Superstorm Yolanda kills at least four in central Philippines before moving out to South China Sea.

P/2013 P5 was born 200 million years ago but has only just been captured by Pan-Starrs and Hubble Telescope.

Typhoon Haiyan due to hit capital of Manila as Philippines braces for fourth superstorm of year.

ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in southeast India at 2:38 p.m local time (4:08 a.m. EST, 0908 GMT).

'Most interesting eclipse of the year' captured on film.

Eclipse can be seen from eastern North America, northern South America, southern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Spitzer Space Telescope captures images of disintegrating remains of dying stars

Briton arrested on charges of hacking into US military and government networks.

Alma telescope photographs spooky object in a part of space where temperatures reach minus 270c.

Hubble telescope captures galaxy z8-GND-5296 as it was 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Earth to get early warning system for asteroid strikes when £800m telescope is launched by the European Space Agency next month.

Discovery in Ukraine of 2013 TV135 has NASA scientists calculating chances of disaster

England boss gets universal backing over joke to black winger Andros Townsend which tarnished World Cup 2014 achievement

Jamie Redknapp says Roy Hodgson will feel betrayed after being accused of racism by a member of the England team

Anti-racism campaign Kick It Out demands answers from the Football Association

England manager was talking about NASA but sparked a race row instead

Gravity is a spectacular space drama that exceeds the outer limits of what cinema had previously achieved.

Lopez hopes his technology will detect potential oil pipe leaks before they happen.

Juno will pass Earth around 350 miles from the planet's surface today.

Nasa's Earth Observing-1 satellite captures images of island formed in Arabian Sea after Pakistan earthquake.

Martian soil analysed by Curiosity rover shows it contains water.

Measurements show spacecraft left heliosphere in August last year.

The UFOs appeared in a recording made by the Space Station's observation cameras.

LADEE's £180m mission will last six months and end with probe crashing into Moon's surface.

Space engineering expert from Kingston University speaks out against project to colonise Mars.

Mega-canyon thought to predate ice sheet that has covered Greenland for millions of years.

Scott Waring says UFO spotted over moon is proof aliens really do exist.