AFP - A NASA spokesman on Thursday said that the launch of its GLAST space telescope, which will allow scientists to look deep into the universe, has been delayed until Wednesday June 11 at the earliest.

AP - Two astronauts stepped outside the international space station Thursday for a spacewalk to spruce up the orbiting outpost's newest room — a $1 billion Japanese lab.

Reuters - Japan's space lab is now open for business, science -- and art.

AP - Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.

AP - The Phoenix lander's first dig into the Martian soil for scientific study was delayed Wednesday because of a communications glitch on a spacecraft that relays commands from Earth to the red planet.

AP - Astronauts opened up Japan's new billion-dollar space station lab, then got ready for another spacewalk, this time to spruce up the outside of the huge addition.

AFP - United Kingdom blue chips closed weaker, albeit off lows as Wall Street turned higher with miners, oils and banks among the top fallers in London, offsetting gains in British Airways following traffic figures.

AFP - A cosmonaut-turned-space plumber repaired the only toilet at the International Space Station on Wednesday, bringing relief while his colleagues worked on opening a new Japanese laboratory.