Government artists knew what would grab attention for China's aerospace research program. Babies! Puppies and kittens! Adorable smiling faces! See more of these posters from the 1960s through the 1980s at Retronaut. Link...

Danger Room tells us of a claim made by Andrew D....  ...William Stillings, a pair of self-proclaimed time- traveling government agents, that President Obama was part...  ...nse regime protecting the Earth from threats from space ” as well as a legal claim to “territorial sov...

Photo: Jeremy Hsu/ Space .comThe problem with space travel , fashion-wise, is that spacesuits are bulky and - let's face it - not very chic. Th...  ...et's face it - not very chic. Thankfully, private spacesuit designers Nikolay Moiseev and Te...

It's bad enough, it would seem from reality televi...  ...days, in a shipping container with barely enough space to stretch your legs. This is the setup the Europ...  ...stretch your legs. This is the setup the European Space Agency has created to test the psychological and...

This post gives you a crash course in gravity, spe...  ...vity, specifically how gravity affects the way we travel to (or don't travel to) other planets. The more massive and more com...  ...This explains why it would be so much easier to travel to one of the moons of Mars tha...

Space travel seems almost out of vogue these days, compared wi...  ...about to change all that by launching commercial space travel . This may sound like a fantasy, but the worl...  ...like a fantasy, but the world's first commerical spacecraft was revealed by them yest...