When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1957, a dog named Laika became the first Earthling to orbit her home planet. The furry ...

From Legos to pizza, this list of space oddities will have you thinking "How have they managed to end up there?" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...

All astronauts get high — about 240 miles (385 kilometers) higher than the planet's surface, if they're working aboard the International Space Station. But no astronauts get stoned … at least, they're ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

Impulse Space has x-SpaceX founders and has $45 million of funding to develop space tugs that would move payloads to higher orbits. Founded in 2021, Impulse Space is providing agile, economical space ...

The former Google chief executive is taking a controlling interest in Relativity Space, which aims to build low-cost, reusable rockets to compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and to reach Mars. Eric ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim flew home with two Roscosmos cosmonauts from the International Space Station packed tight in their Soyuz spacecraft landing in the frozen steppes of Kazakhstan on Dec. 9 to ...

Every year, the Space Needle Foundation in Seattle offers the public an opportunity to climb to the top via an outdoor staircase. It’s a charity event that raises money both for Space Needle itself ...

Gulf space ambitions represent a strategic pivot, embedding space capabilities within broader agendas for economic ...