Happy birthday, Justin Bieber! T...  ...ay present: make him a Biebernaut and send him to space ! The idea is not to rid the wor...  ...rather to help jump-start the emerging suborbital spaceflight industry. Lofting a celebrit...  ...the American public, which could help comm...

That bottle to the left, Neatora...  ...Turns out that after spending some time in space , astronauts' taste in food change:...  ...ice cream, think again. After a few days in space , they start reaching for the hot sauc...  ...Tabasco sauce was definitely on the menu for *strong...

This is not the first picture you've seen of the Helix Nebula, but it's the best image so far. The Helix Nebula is a cloud of gas that was left when a star expired 700 light years away from us. This image is in the near...

The semi-annual meeting of the American Astron...  ...cal Society was held in Austin recently, and many space images were shared. Dr. Phil Plait was not at the...

Between 1968 and 1971, researchers Edwin L. Murphy...  ...el of flatulence produced by difference astronaut space diets. Picturing how the study went brings into f...  ...any indignities astronauts face for their shot at space travel. Their paper formed part of a loose trilo...

(YouTube link) What's more awesome than move special effects? The real thing! This footage of Earthrise over the moon was taken from the Apollo X mission in 1969. All it needed was the proper soundtrack. -via Boing Bo...

Apollo 8 wasn't just a NASA mission; it was the bi...  ...the astronauts to host a live broadcast from the spacecraft on Christmas Eve. Worse still, the men were given...  ...ously orbit the Moon, introduce millions to outer space on TV, and buoy the American spirit? The m...  ...some of the first images...

Last week, Phil Plait posted his year-end gall...  ...year-end gallery of the best pictures taken from space . Now you can see his picks for the best pictures...  ...u can see his picks for the best pictures of deep space , really deep, like these galaxies that are 300 mi...  ...o celebrate the observatory's 20t...

Dr. Phil Plait selects his favorite space pictures every year, but this year he had a lot t...  .... The top 16 pictures taken from the viewpoint of space include volcanoes, hurricanes, earth formations,...  ...icanes, earth formations, the moon, eclipses, and spacecraft ,...

On July 14, 2015, the spacecraft New Horizons will come within 7,767 miles of (for...  ...d broke a record on Friday by becoming the closet spacecraft to Pluto ever. The previous record was 1.58 billi...  ...he planet and its moons will be so close that the spacecraft ’s camer...