Our neighboring planets are not exactly the most hospitable places. Humans have been talking about space colonization for quite some time, but our neighboring planets are not exactly the most ...

One of the most important reasons we go to space is to know our own planet better. One of the most important reasons we go to space is to know our own planet better. Today I'm going to tell you about ...

The International Space Station is turning 25 this month. Twenty-five years of people from all over the world living together and working together in space. At the same time, it is starting to wrap up ...

Exotic matter – matter with negative mass - has long been the pipedream of science fiction writers, futurists, and certain rather. . . optimistic researchers. It’s the key to faster than light travel ...

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Image: Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria on the International Space Station in the world’s first HDTV broadcast from space. Image credit: Discovery Channel. Images from the world’s first ...

(via PBS Space Time) There are cosmic events so powerful that they leave permanent marks on the fabric of the universe itself. Imagine two colossal black holes spiraling into each other, yes they send ...

“But that doesn’t mean it’s not really hard.” "Space: The Longest Goodbye" airs May 12 on PBS. Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Cady Coleman peeks out of a window of the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft shortly ...

(via PBS Space Time) Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe. Space is expanding evenly everywhere, but if you rewind that expansion you find that all of space was once ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news ...