Back on December 24, 1968 the crew of the Apollo 8...  ...ack on December 24, 1968 the crew of the Apollo 8 space mission were to make history for two things. The...  ...human beings to circle another celestial body in space and they were also to take one of the most iconic...

Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy blog has selected his ten favorite astronomy pictures from the year 2008. His descriptions are as entertaining as the pictures! This one shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, which is about 50 milli...

Space tourism is still horribly expensive (a flight to...  ...horribly expensive (a flight to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft goes for about $20 million). But if you want, you...  ...in by donning the replica of the iconic Apollo 11 *strong class=...

Students at Parkside and Coleridge schools in Camb...  ...Cambridgeshire, England sent two teddy bears into space ! 21-year-old Henry Hallam led the project to send...  ...in the stratosphere, and enlisted the help of the Space Flight science club, a club for schoolchildren sp...  ...irst initials of the pupils...

Who knew how scientific just drinking coffee i...  ...ic just drinking coffee is when it takes place in space ? You learn something new every day. Link

The Boston.com website has compiled a set of 25 im...  ...rom orbit. The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220...  ...ries of great NASA photographs of hurricanes from space . Link - via kottke.org

Today it's exactly 50 years since the Soviet Union launched their Sputnik 1 - the world's first artificial satellite to be put into geocentric orbit. Link [Wikipedia] - via Prylfeber...

The European Space Agency launched the Rosetta space probe {wiki} in 2004 to study the comet 67P/Chury...