An experiment to tap the power of outer cosmos fails as the link cable breaks

The Pioneer 11, which had transmit- ted some spectacular pictures of Jupiter and its moons, is now drifting towards interstellar space some 6.5 billion kin from the earth. Its power

...or how young?

Optic fibres enable transmission of information at the speed of light and without any interference

Fibre optics technology is set to transform the field of telecommunications

The unlit part of the crescent moon can help calculate Earth's temperature and measure greenhouse warming

A financially squeezed NASA has been forced to look for cheaper ways to explore the solar system

Experiments support a theory that states galaxies originated in cosmic defects

The billion dollar Star Wars programme lies abandoned, but the technology will now be used to combat asteroids

AS RUSSIA moves to a market economy, some celebrated but impecunious cosmonauts are cashing in on their space legacies. Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, pocketed $255,500 as he watched