Claire Lamman is a graduate student in astronomy a...  ...nomical survey instrument, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, favorite space probes, and a model of the Very Large Array in Ne...  ...eates a gingerbread model of the famed Voyager IV spacecraft .

We mentioned a few years ago that Japan planned to...  ...LingoSat, arrived on Tuesday at the International Space Station on a SpaceX vehicle. Space .com describes it as a small cube--just four inche...  ...nches on a side. It's a substantial innovation in *strong class="ma...

In 1968, the Catholic Church established the Diocese of Orlando, which encompasses a large amount of central Florida. This area includes Cape Canaveral, from which the Apollo moon missions were launched in the late 1960s...

How could humanity quickly create a functional lon...  ...create a functional long-duration interplanetary spacecraft ? In the science fiction novel Vorpal Blade, autho...  ...es of submarines might carry over to the voids of space .Could it work? How long would the crew of a nucle...  ...would the crew of a nuc...

Assuming that the future history of humanity is not accurately depicted in Idiocracy, it's possible that large numbers of humans will eventually settle the solar system. These human communities will be isolated from each...

Without gravity, the human body suffers atrophy in...  ...to know what to expect. Accordingly, the European Space Agency has recruited volunteers to spend 60 days...

Tim Peake (left), a British astronaut who stayed o...  ...h astronaut who stayed on board the International Space Station in 2016, isn't pointing fingers at anyone...  ...r Peake was asked what it was like to burp with a space helmet on. He explained that people don't burp in...  ...helmet on. He explained that...

Let's say that a Canadian astronaut traveling to t...  ...repared for the likelihood of crimes committed in space .CBC reports that there is an amendment in the Bud...  ...ll that says:A Canadian crew member who, during a space flight, commits an act or omission outside Canada...  ...act or omission in Canada.Th...

There haven't been any medical emergencies in space so far, mainly because missions were short throug...  ...y because missions were short through most of the space program's history. First aid on the ISS is superv...  ...would be no help outside the ship. And surgery in space p...

The Soviets sent the dog Laika and other animals i...  ...Soviets sent the dog Laika and other animals into space before humans. NASA sent chimpanzees into space to pave the way for astronauts. The French, a lit...  ...a little behind the superpowers, sent a cat into space .On...