[caption id="attachment_28891" align="aligncenter"...  ...g the training of American astronauts, along with spacefarers from China and Russia, was recently on display at...  ...y at the London Art Fair.  In addition to snazzy spacesuits and a mission control center that still looks lik...

At New Scientist, Michael Marshall describes t...  ...s ten hypothetical technologies that could propel spacecraft at greater distances and higher speeds than ever...  ...speeds. They have already been used on several spacecraft , such as Japan's Hayabusa probe and Europe's SMAR...

With an American and a Russian colleague, Japanese...  ..., Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi launched into space today in a Soyuz spacecraft , bringing with him the first sushi ever taken int...  ...t: "We had training in Japan and I trained (my space colleagues) to be sush...

For over a century, space exploration enthusiasts have proposed building an elevator in...  ...ble stretching from the surface of the earth into space . Huge technical (particularly material) obstacle...  ...s have made progress: Funded by NASA and the Spaceward Foundation...

Image: Bryan Christie Illustrator Bryan Christi...  ...ne of his recent works is this chart of the human exploration of Mars, organized by country, date, type, and su...

Image: National Geographic The above image is a selection and compression of an enormous interactive map of the almost two hundred manned and unmanned exploratory missions in our solar system over the past fifty years...

Radar magazine has a gallery of thirteen consumer...  ...nsumer products that were originally developed by space exploration programs. Among them is the ear thermometer:...