For the first time in a generation, NASA has a new rocket waiting for launch time. Weather is now the only thing holding back the launch of the Ares I-X rocket. NASA's first flight test of its Ares I-X booster rocket is only slated to last two minutes. Cloudy skies are holding up the test launch of NASA's newest rocket. NASA has until noon to get the experimental Ares I-X flight going.

The Indian launcher Polar Space Launch Vehicle took off at 8:22 a.m. - Swiss time. Twenty minutes later, the SwissCube was ejected from the nose cone of the rocket at an altitude of around 720 kilometers. At 9:37 a.m. the first ever signals sent from a Swiss satellite in space were picked up from Stanford (California). Mission accomplished.

Just about 3 minutes ago NASA launched Kepler telescope. Kepler will search for life in our galaxy Milky Way. Kepler will monitor 100,000 stars, searching for signs of planets - including ones as small as or smaller than Earth. The telescope will continue the search for habitable planets.

Four Toronto college students known as "Operation First Contact" recently spoke with the International Space Station, using a radio system they designed and built – a technological accomplishment their professors say has never been matched by students at the undergraduate level.

Not since the late 1960s and Early 1970s has the rush into space exploration seen such an explosion of effort and popularity, bringing with it some unlikely candidates that would never have been believed in the early days of the first “Space Race.”

The Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales of France has announced that the smallest earth like planet was discovered on February 3, 2009 by the French telescope COROT. The earth like planet is the smallest exoplanet yet, with a surface to walk on.

Iran state media say Tehran has launched its first homemade satellite into orbit. Iran launches its first domestically made satellite, describing it as "another achievement under sanctions".

The first robot that can jump like a grasshopper and roll like a ball could play a key role in future space exploration.

At 8:34 pm Indian time Friday night (1504 UTC), India became the fourth group to land its flag on the Moon. The unmanned lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 ejected its Moon Impact Probe, which hurtled across the surface of the Moon at 1.5 kilometres per second (3000 miles per hour), and successfully crash landed near the Moon's south pole. Besides carrying three important scientific instruments, the lunar probe also carried the image of the Indian national flag, painted on all sides.

The launch of the space shuttle Endeavour was successful as the space shuttle launched toward the skies preparing our home in the International Space Station.