[/caption] NASA is on course to make the highest leap in human spaceflight in nearly 4 decades when an unmanned…
In preparation for his jump from from 36,500 meters (120,000 feet) sometime this summer, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner took a…
This is incredible -- the shimmering green aurora almost reaches up and touches the International Space Station in this latest…
In this episode of the Weekly Space Hangout, we talk about two different asteroid close passes, the solar storms buffeting…
While it didn't quite make it to space, this Lego space shuttle got quite a ride on a weather balloon,…
Gavin Heffernan's latest timelapse is a stunning look at the night sky over Joshua Tree National Park in California. You'll…
Okay, NASA's really just showing off with this video. They dug up every piece of amazing archival footage and had…
If you weren't able to watch live, this is a fun exchange between the current astronauts in orbit, talking with…
The Atacama Desert of Chile has been called "an astronomer's paradise," with its stunningly dark, steady and transparent skies. It…
On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, or Mercury 6, the first human orbital flight…