While common travellers have had to satisfy their desire for futuristic flight by booking passage aboard a Boeing 777 or Airbus A380, NASA has been busy cooking up some seriously cool new concepts. Faster, quieter, more fuel-efficient and let’s face it – way more awesome looking – these new aircraft have it all. These are the green designs that might soon dominate our skies.

Who says you need a national space program to explore the outer reaches of Earth’s atmosphere? These two Canadian teens did it by themselves, with a little help from Lego.

People throughout the world have reported hearing really weird and unexplainable noises. There are numerous YouTube videos that have recorded these sounds and just as many theories on what the sounds could be.

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, launched in 1999, is now in the 12th year of what was originally a 5-year mission. These are some of its most intriguing images and discoveries.

What is China up to? An extremely odd collection of objects has been discovered in the Gobi Desert, close to the border with Mongolia – and nobody is quite sure exactly what they are.

Invisible infrared barrier acts as a force-field against mosquitoes.

Forget science-fiction, NASA is working on making the tractor beam a reality.

On November 8, asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass by Earth at a distance closer than the Moon.

New analysis of data collected over 100 years ago suggests that the human race may have narrowly escaped extinction.

The Space Shuttle era may have come to an end, but the retirement of its flagship vehicle doesn’t mean NASA has been resting on its laurels. The space agency has announced a brand new project that will carry the United States into a new era of deep space exploration.