The Constellation Mug looks pretty unremarkable when empty. A casual observer might not even recognize the little white flecks as stars. But pour yourself a hot cup of coffee or tea, and eleven constellations – including Orion, Hercules, and Perseus – spring into view. Do want.
There's nothing more beautiful than a starship hurtling through space — or even diving into a planet's atmosphere. Here is a collection of gorgeous concept art that imagines our future interstellar vehicles.
At just 40 light years from Earth, Gliese 1214b is one of the nearest Super-Earths we've discovered in our search for planets beyond the solar system. Now, a team of Japanese researchers say it could well be an "ocean world," abundant in good old H2O.
I am sick of hearing people say that the Space Age is "over" because we haven't sent humans back to the Moon. Seriously? That's your complaint? You people need to shut the hell up, and this gorgeous picture of Saturn taken by Cassini is just one reason why.
Remember Rome Sweet Rome, the Reddit thread about time travel and war that was so fantastic it inspired a movie deal?
If we're going to build cities on Mars, we must first figure out how to supply colonists with water and food. If underground Martian ice turns out to be as plentiful as some hope, we may have water covered. And now a group of Greek hackers has invented a device for growing food there, too.
OK, you’ve waited patiently for "Comet of the Century" ISON to brighten and reappear in the dawn sky. Now it has. Now you’re chomping at the bit for a look at it in your telescope. Before you set the alarm and venture into the night, let’s prepare for what to expect. The better you know your target, the easier it will…
Artist Jack Coggins illustrated several books about rockets and spaceflight, but his reputation rests largely on two books: Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Spaceships (1951) and By Spaceship to the Moon (1952). Written by SciFi author Fletcher Pratt, they were the first serious books about space travel ever…
Jodorowsky in the sky forever. He may not have gotten to direct a movie version of Dune, but at least comics creator and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has gotten an asteroid named after him.
This new image from Hubble depicts a proto-star, a knotted clump of gas and dust that stretches well over a light-year in length. Located some 4,500 light-years from Earth, this future star is desperately trying to gain as much mass as possible — all while older, bigger stars blast it with ultraviolet radiation, which…
Nobody is sure how life emerged from the primordial chemistry of Earth. But now we have more evidence that Earthlike life could have evolved on Mars.
Zombies. They're your ultimate nightmare. But the only thing that's more intense than regular zombies? Is space zombies. Because zombies are automatically way more terrifying when there's noplace to run. Here are the 10 greatest space zombies of all time!
Almost 14 billion years ago an incredible event took place. It was a giant explosion where everything began: matter, energy, time and even space itself. Our whole universe came into existence from a single point. What would it be like to live through the end of all that? It depends on whose theory you believe.
How many people are in space right now? You can find out, by clicking this link.
The twentieth century Soviet space program will always be remembered as one of the greatest in the world. And these posters reveal that it also came with one of the world's most beautifully-designed propaganda campaigns, too.
There are a lot of weird moons in our solar system, but ours is probably the weirdest. For one thing, it's really damn big. It's practically a planet.
When you camp in the Sierra mountains of California, the night skies are incredible. Our Milky Way galaxy is splashed across the dark dome, and you can see every constellation that's normally blotted out by city lights. Now, imagine you're out there with astrophysicists, explaining it all to you. That's how I spent my …
A spacewalk outside the ISS was scrapped last month
