SPACE

If you like planets and watch to catch ‘em all, get your poké balls ready.

The Aurora Borealis has a down under sibling, the Aurora Australis.

To put this in context, every single orbital, cargo-bearing rocket used before the founding of SpaceX—except for those that blew up on the launch pad or otherwise went horribly wrong—was dropped into the ocean after launch.

He was a self-taught astronomer who had not yet attended college.

2. It once had an imaginary friend called Vulcan.

The essay is pure Churchill: expansive, informed, philosophical, and just a little bit cranky.

When the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, there were seven astronauts on board whose lives were tragically cut short.

Imagine a galactic-scale laser shooting a beam of microwaves across space.

In 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe became the first spacecraft to land on an object in the outer solar system.

On February 20, 1962, pioneering astronaut John Glenn made history when he became the first American to orbit the Earth—but he wasn't done yet.

Hodges survived with mild injuries, but the offending space rock would still manage to mar the rest of her life.

The zero-G lifestyle does funny things to our bodily fluids.