Even with European carriers implementing new in-flight cellphone laws, the FAA and FCC say they remain uninterested in letting you take your iPhone into American skies. Sooner or later, though, they might just have to give in to demand.

Set to make its first rendezvous with the International Space Station on Thursday, the Jules Verne is one of seven probable Automated Transfer Vehicles, built by the European Space Agency to deliver cargo and supplies.

With a surprise entry upending the space tourism race, Burt Rutan's suborbital plane gets ready for testing in the Mojave Desert. Will it fly by 2009? The construction gurus at Scaled Composites will go a long way toward answering that pivotal question. (Published in the May 2008 issue)

Despite robotic rovers and seemingly endless analysis, NASA’s long observation of the Red Planet has rarely sent home as stunning an in-progress geological change as this: not one, but four avalanches tumbling from the Martian north pole.

The Pentagon announced that a Navy warship will shoot down a failing spy satellite that, if left alone, was expected to hit Earth within weeks. An SM-3 missile will be fired from a Navy cruiser or destroyer during the next month to obliterate the inbound spacecraft.