The planned UNESCOSat mission -- a UN-owned satell...  ...feces into a fuel that can be used on long-range spaceflights : The goal is, to put it bluntly, to see if She...  ...plains Donald Platt, the Program Director for the Space Sciences and Space Systems Program at the Fl...

Astronauts can lose 1-2% of their skeletal mas...  ...nology/article/2010-10/superhero-style-skin-tight- spacesuit

You may want to reconsider getting pregnant (or im...  ...tting pregnant (or impregnating someone) while in space . Low or zero gravity may impair the development...

The blogger behind English Russia compiled hig...  ...llo 11 in the Race to the Moon by Crash Landing a Spacecraft

(YouTube Link) We've previously featured the...  ...it showing how a CD player becomes a gyroscope in space , adding Alka-Seltzer to a spherical drop of water...  ...l drop of water, showing the Aurora Borealis from space , and drinking drops of tea with a pair of chopsti...

In 1970, during the Luna 17 mission, the Soviet space program landed the first ever remote-controlled v...

(vimeo link) When humans explore other planets, there's a possibility we may overlook something important. This animation was produced by Joe Bichard and Jack Cunningham. -via Laughing Squid...

Japan's space agency plans to launch the first deep space vehicle to be use solar sail propulsion: "Ikaros...  ...e to be use solar sail propulsion: "Ikaros is a ' space yacht' that gets propulsion from the pressure of...  ...t particles bouncing off its sail," Yuichi...

Next month, the Russian made Dnepr rocket will car...  ...uropean satellite into orbit. It's a very unique space vehicle. The rocket is an intercontinental balli...

In the 50s and 60s, scientists were already thinki...  ...0s, scientists were already thinking about what a space station in Earth orbit might need, what it might...  ...that featured many of the same requirements of a space station. Pictured is MOL, just one of nine space stat...