The first hamburger in space

Sponsored by B.Good , a local hamburger company in Massachusetts, five friends from Harvard University sent a one of their delicious product...

Toy train goes to space

Contestant for dad of the year Ron Fulgelseth and his 4-year-old son tie "Stanley" the train to a weather balloon and send him in...

The Curiosity rover descent, from above

Hi-res cameras on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite capture this image of the Mars rover Curiosity, while parachuting to the...

Footage from the NASA control room during the Curiosity landing

As you've probably already heard, NASA's rover Curiosity has successfully landed on Mars today, as planned . Here are the people wh...

ISS-view time-lapse video of the day

Albuquerque-based night sky photographer Knate Myers takes images captured from the International Space Station orbiting the Earth and use...

Infographic: The Planets to Scale

The planets from our solar system, compared by size. Space Facts | via Related: More planets, compared by size

Mission Impossible: Landing on Mars

Aided by CGI, some team members of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory describe "the seven minutes of terror" - the time the new...

The Earth from space, in time-lapse

Amazing time-lapse footage of the Earth's north hemisphere shot by Electro-L - a Russian geostationary weather satellite orbiting 40,00...

Space shuttle POV

NASA mounts cameras on the shuttle's solid rocket boosters before sending it into space, capturing images from the moment of the launch,...

Getting up after falling on the Moon

Since there's not much of a gravity on the moon, once you fall, getting up is can be quite a hassle. Watch astronaut Charlie Duke do it ...

Moon bloopers

Astronauts falling on the moon is something you don't see every day. Here's a compilation of such moments. via

From the archives: dropping a hammer and a feather on the moon

You know how the say "in space, no one can hear you scream a hammer weighs as much as a feather?" Here's an Apollo 15 astrona...

Time-lapse flight view of the globe form space

The view from the International Space Station that orbits the Earth at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over No...

Explosion on the Sun

You may have heard of the huge explosion that occurred on the Sun a couple of days ago. Here it is, captured with an ultraviolet camera from...

Space photo: close-up of the Sun

Alan Friedman takes a photograph of the sun with his homemade 90mm telescope. embiggenate Bad Astronomy | via

Planets of our solar system compared to the Moon

How large would planets appear in the sky if the were in the same spot as the Moon? Brad Blogspeed

Earth from Mars

This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit ...

Space cat

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Space cat

Space experiments with a cat in a zero gravity environment. No trucks were harmed during the shot of this video. Watch video via

Zooming in on the Moon

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