Does your dog get exited about a trip in the car?...  ...hem the chance to explore the farthest reaches of space ?Celestis Pets, a company in Houston, Texas, wants...

(Image: NASA)Assuming that faster-than-light trave...  ...o be genetically healthy in the long run, a human space colony would need at least 10,000 members.Ideally...

Randall Munroe, the roboticist and artist behind the webcomic xkcd, operates the blog “What If?” In it, he responds to strange scientific queries by readers. Most recently, reader Bryan J. McCarter asked Mr....

(Photo: Charles Atkeison)You might not make it int...  ...hoto: Charles Atkeison)You might not make it into space during your lifetime, but you might get to Space Camp. Since 1982, this NASA program at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama has pr...  ...Ro...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered a star forming 4,500 light y...  ...ne with its own light, explains Zolt Levay of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.But Trek...

Tim Peake, a British astronaut, will work on the I...  ...British astronaut, will work on the International Space Station in 2015. He took pictures of a five-drawe...  .... What tools would you want to take with you into space ?Link -via Blame It on the Voices

The Apollo lunar landings are arguably the greates...  ...he Atlantic summarizing the opposition. He quotes space historian Roger Launius, who wrote:Consistently t...  ...nspace, indicative of a lack of commitment to the space flight agenda. Opposition among African-Americans...  ...k papers questioned the use...

Craig Curran has been a successful travel agent fo...  ...rends. One of them, thanks to Virgin Galactic, is space tourism. Now, instead of selling airline tickets...  ...Paris, he's selling suborbital flight tickets to space :It’s not like it was back in Curran’s...  ..., when customers would activel...

Some people aren't content with merely taking pictures on the surface of Mars--they want to plant their flag and colonize the red planet as soon as possible. And by some people I mean the Dutch company behind the proj...

Voyager I, the space probe launched 35 years ago, has gone farther tha...  ...'s Jet Propulsion Lab, Edward Stone, told me. The spacecraft is on its way out -- "it's leaving the solar syst...  ...has to go or what that transition to interstellar space will look like. Voya...