(YouTube link) After over eight months of tra...  ...the goal to find out how humans react during long spaceflights . The experiment is nearing its mid-point. Af...

Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy Blog has a collection of astronomical images that display valentine heart shapes -which just goes to show you can find anything if you look heart, er, hard enough. This picture is of the W...

(vimeo link) Brad Goodspeed watched the recent lunar eclipse and wondered how an exact copy of the earth would look if it were as close to us as the moon. Then he thought about the other planets. In this animation, he...

Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy Blog points out th...  ...onauts and others who have died in the pursuit of space exploration. Link

Artist Kasey McMahon (previously at Neatorama)...  ...an "infographic" with 22 reasons to explore outer space . I put quotes around the word infographic because...  ...infographics you've seen. http://atypicalart.com/ space /

NASA is preparing to auction off souvenirs, paperw...  ...successful sports shop business in Texas, a keen space collector, and a friend of the astronauts. Biddi...

(YouTube link) Geocaching is a hobby that's r...  ...ite and became the first East Coast Geocache into space

(YouTube link) NASA astronauts Scott Kelly an...  ...Coleman along with Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency send a holiday message from the Internatio...  ...ncy send a holiday message from the International Space Station (ISS). -via Metafilter

Dr. Phil Plait has published his selections of the best astronomy pictures of 2010. Not only will you see awesome pictures, but each has an explanation, like the full version of the cropped picture you see here. Wheneve...

NPR's Robert Krulwich posted last week about comparing sizes. He was surprised to find out how small an area the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wandered when they made the first moon landing in 1969....