SPACE

Finnish gaming firm Rovio expects to boost growth for months to come, with expansion in Asia, to Facebook and with the launch of Angry Birds Spaces, its marketing chief told Reuters in an interview.

Faced with deep budget cuts, NASA is restructuring its Mars exploration program in order to scrap up funds for a possible robotic mission to the red planet between 2018 and 2020.

Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, expects to test fly its first spacecraft beyond the Earth's atmosphere this year, with commercial suborbital passenger service to follow in 2013 or 2014, company officials said on Monday.

EA-owned video game development studio Visceral Games could be aiming to employ EA's newest graphics engine, the DICE-developed Frostbite 2.0, for a new title in the Dead Space series, Dead Space 3.

A Japanese company unveiled plans on Wednesday to build a space elevator it hopes to complete by 2050.

Next year, six volunteers will spend four months living on a simulated Mars base for a NASA food study conducted by Cornell University and the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

Obayashi Corporation, one of the major Japanese construction companies, has a grandiose dream - it plans to build a 'space elevator,' by the year 2050, which will transport passengers almost 60,000 miles high into space, Japanese newspaper Yomiuri has reported.

Rovio is launching the fourth major release in the Angry Birds series Angry Birds Space on March 22 for mobile devices. The game will feature new planets, and users will have to compete with zero gravity while experiencing many new gameplay elements.

It was 50 years ago today that astronaut John Glenn left the earth in what would become on the most historic flights. Glenn's capsule, the Friendship 7, soared 162 miles from Cape Canaveral, Fla., into outer space.

It seems this earth is too small for the flock of angry birds whose goal in life is to destroy the greedy green pigs who stole their eggs. That's right, Angry Birds is all set to blast off into space and the date of their cosmic trip has been set for March 22..

China will launch the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year, carrying three astronauts to the Tiangong-1 space module, Xinhua reported Friday.

Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds have conquered mines, construction sites, Rio, and all four seasons, which is why the colorful birds will leave this planet and take their slings and fury to space. On Friday, Rovio announced their new game, Angry Birds Space, which will launch on March 22.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a man named Dave Grohl, one of the greatest musicians of his time, and he wanted to go to space. He wasn't alone. Rapper Jay-Z and his lovely wife, Beyonce Knowles wanted to take the mother of all journeys, too.

Electronic Arts plans to launch copies of Mass Effect 3 into space using weather balloons, which will be released in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, London, Berlin, and Paris.

Space junk now in Earth's orbit will be blasted into dust by a new Swiss satellite called the CleanSpace One, and its mission is a critical one. NASA says nearly 95 percent of the objects in the above picture are junk. Though Switzerland is not responsible for adding to that amount of space debris, they aim to be the ones cleaning it up. The Swiss Space Center is building the CleanSpace One satellite for the express purpose of finding, collecting and destroying not functional satellites and o...

Astronomers announced Wednesday that a controversial midsized black hole matures by shredding apart a surrounding galaxy, a first glimpse into how the medium-sized black hole forms.

The spectacular image, which combines data captured by four telescopes, depicts the celestial event which Chinese astronomers witnessed in 185 AD. The mysterious phenomenon, termed as guest star, remained in the sky for eight months, they had noted.

The videos were captured using time-lapse photography and a Nikon D3S.

NASA has released stunning night images captured from the vantage point of the International Space Station. Captured by a still camera aboard the ISS orbiting 240 miles above the Earth, the pictures will soon be available via NASA Television's video file.

NASA is looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers said on Tuesday.

Felix Baumgartner's space jump will take place in 2012, the Austrian daredevil's sponsor, Red Bull, confirmed this week.