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Astronaut Dale Gardner holds a ‘For sale’ sign referring to the two satellites retrieved during STS-51-A mission - BBC/Keo Films/NASA Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, ...

Full of extraordinary footage, Robert Stone's blissed-out mind-bender of a movie meditates on the possibilities of life in the universe. When I was four, my parents took me to a planetarium for the ...

May 2, 2025 was National Space Day, an occasion to reflect on the history of the American spaceflight program for all its triumphs and tragedies, as well as to pause and consider all of the ...

When I was four, my parents took me to a planetarium for the first time. It was a huge one, in Chicago; it seemed as big as space itself. I enjoyed many more visits to planetariums over the years, but ...

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 ...

Sci-fi geeks have long worshipped an obscure TV show about a futuristic Moonbase Alpha and its spacecraft fleet of Eagles. Now, about a half-century in, those “Space: 1999” superfans are about to get ...

Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon had a question before going into space: How would he mark Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest, from orbit? Sabbath begins Friday at sunset and ends Saturday after sunset. But ...