Space

Vintage NASA Photographs to Go Up For Auction

Video Shows Phases of the Moon from its Dark Side

Neil Armstrong's Widow Finds Forgotten Trove of Apollo 11 Artifacts

Does Your Local Park Have a Tree That Has Orbited The Moon?

12 Distant Places In The Solar System (And What They’re Named After)

Hubble Snaps Another Gorgeous Pic of "Pillars of Creation"

NASA Can See Your Holiday Lights From Space

15 Ongoing Space Missions You Should Know About

What else is going on up there?

15 Out-of-This-World Facts About the International Space Station

Today marks the 16th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight to assemble the International Space Station. Let’s celebrate 16 years of the ISS with 15 things you may not have known about the world’s shared space station.

Rosetta snaps a selfie. Courtesy ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA.

Why Did We Land on a Comet?

"It is like the difference between what you can learn taking pictures from an airplane versus a geologist digging directly into the ground.”

Astronauts on the ISS Put a GoPro in a Sphere of Water

12 Cool Experiments Done on the International Space Station

NASA/Colorado School of Mines/MIT/JPL/Goddard Space Flight Center

Scientists May Have Figured Out What Caused the Man on the Moon

An Interactive Map of Earth Photos Tweeted by Astronauts

Astronauts up on the International Space Station are very busy performing space walks, running science experiments—and snapping photos of Earth that they then post on Twitter.

17 Odd Things We've Sent to Space for Some Reason

From the plush dinosaur the SpaceX crew brought aboard to the sandwich John Young smuggled into space, humans have sent some intriguing items into the cosmos.

5 Man-Made Things You Can See from Space (Plus One You Really Can’t)

Which of mankind’s marvels can we actually spot from the final frontier? This question calls for a little perspective. Space is big.

When a Black Hole Dies, Is a White Hole Born?

Like a galactic purge, all the matter and light sucked in by the black hole is now spewed outward.

Recipes from History: Launch Beans

18 Things We Learned from Buzz Aldrin's Reddit AMA

Today, the second man to walk on the Moon did a Reddit AMA. Here are a few things we learned.

11 Things You Might Not Know About the International Space Station

We all know what the ISS looks like. Thanks to Gravity, we even know what it looks like when it’s destroyed. But here are 11 things you might not know.

How Does an Anti-Gravity Treadmill Work?

The "anti-gravity treadmill" was originally invented by Robert Whalen, a biomechanics researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, in the 1990s. Hint: It *doesn't* defy the laws of physics.

The Mystery of the "Space Roar"

While there are some theories about the origin of the space noise, we still don't know what's causing it.

Alan Shepard's Voyage to Space

What Would a Full Lunar Eclipse Look Like From the Moon?

Eclipses are a pretty amazing sight from our tiny little vantage points on Earth. But what would a lunar eclipse look like from the moon's surface? And what about that strange phenomenon we call a blood moon?