SPACE

The country music icon spent years trying to get higher than any musician had ever been.

Engineers have had to come up with some interesting ways to generate oxygen for astronauts in the vacuum of space.

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Coming up with a practical way of replicating the earthbound poop experience took many years, many engineers, and a whole lot of ingenuity.

Sick astronauts on a space mission can’t just pop down to Earth to see a doctor. Here’s how they deal with bumps, bruises, and worse.

Before she helped send the first astronauts to the moon, Katherine Johnson was a human “computer” working behind the scenes at NASA.

Here on Earth, we tend to take showering for granted. But getting clean isn’t so easy without the force of gravity helping you out.

It might not have garnered the box office success of movies like ‘E.T.’ and ‘Back to the Future,’ but more than 40 years after its release, ‘The Last Starfighter’ has acquired a cult following.

On Earth, compasses always point north—but when you’re drifting outside our planet’s magnetosphere, things get more complicated. 

If the northern lights are on your bucket list, the 2026 to 2027 winter season will be exciting for you.

These processed images of Jupiter make the planet look like a painting.

A type of wood commonly used to make Samurai sword sheaths may be the future of space exploration.