There are plenty of problems associated with space travel and exploration , but there are also many minds working hard to so...  ...to do what we want to do -and now, so are private space exploration companies. For example, we may soon be able to se...  ...that’s just...

Forty-five years ago, we thought colonizing the mo...  ...g the moon was surely in our future. But once the space race was won, the moon was found to be not useful...  ...reviously at Neatorama) explains the economics of space colonization. The planned Mars mission looks diff...

NASA was formed in 1958 to replace the NACA (Natio...  ...ed many such films, TV shows, and videos to bring space close to all of us. Here’s a compressed loo...

If you’ve ever been to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, you mig...  ...Miss Baker. She was one of many animals sent to space , but the first ever recovered alive by NASA. In 1...  ...iss Able, a rhesus monkey, were outfitted in tiny space suits and...

(Composite image by NASA/European Space Agency)Have you ever seen the aurora borealis or...  ...rth. Jupiter has them, too. NASA and the European Space Agency has recently been training the far-seeing...  ...has recently been training the far-seeing Hubble Space Telescope on nea...

(Photo: NASA)Scott Kelly, an American astronaut, r...  ...th after nearly a year on board the International Space Station. NASA physicians found that he's now 2 in...  ...escribes other effects of spending a long time in space , including a shrunken heart, difficulty with bala...  ...mass: Astronauts no longe...

(Artist's Interpretation by NASA/Mark A. Garlick)NASA's Kepler 2 telescope orbits the sun. It has the largest telescopic mirror outside of Earth orbit, which permits it to acquire detailed images of solar systems far, fa...

The Buran program was the Soviet Union's response...  ...gram was the Soviet Union's response to America's space shuttle program. It lagged far behind its US coun...

A few space firsts, from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader A...  ...First person to run the Boston Marathon while in space : NASA astronaut Sunita Williams aboard the Intern...  ...stronaut Sunita Williams aboard the International Space Station. She was an official participant,...

(Photos: Daily Telegraph)Andreas Morgensen, 38, is...  ...hagen. On Friday, he arrived at the International Space Station for a 10-day mission. Morgensen brought 2...