Shuttle Challenger left Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Flight Center. Seventy-three seconds into flight, the Orbiter Challenger exploded, killing all seven of its crew. The cause of the accident was due to the cold-related failure of the aft joint seal…

1972 Was the year a great love affair ended. The human race fell out of love with the moon. It was a classic case of ‘familiarity breeds contempt’. There’d been six moon landings, and we’d grown bored. To this day,…

It has become firmly accepted that 14 billion years ago there was nothing until a big bang gave birth to the universe we call home. This classic authoritative theory is now doubted and a new theory called dark flow…

Space colonization is no longer the fodder of science fiction, it is becoming a reality. Examine the efforts underway to establish a human colony on Mars, including how they plan to grow food, recycle wastewater and introduce greenhouse gases to…

Some time before he died in 1996, Carl Sagan recorded a partial audio version of his 1994 book “”Pale Blue Dot””. Often described as the “”sequel”” to Cosmos, the audio version of Pale Blue Dot is, at this moment, regrettably…

Cheat Sheet with Michio Kaku: Mysteries of the Universe is a documentary that’ll give you lots of new and interesting facts in a short time. Suppose you’re out with a group of friends gazing at the night sky and someone…

Take a walk on planet earth. It’s a wonderful place. But don’t take it for granted, because one day it might just vanish… forever. This is the story of the universe we live in, and the dangers we face just…

A nice BBC documentary about time travel, and not just because Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking are in it. See what scientists have to say about wormholes and the many possibilities time travel could bring.
Watch: The Time Lords

In 1977 two spacecraft were launched from earth on a mission to explore the planets of the outer solar system. They encountered Jupiter in 1979 and then Saturn in 1980 and 1981. At Saturn Voyager 1 was thrown upwards out…

At the edge of the spectral frontier, strange things go bang in the night. High-energy radiation, the alarm signal of atoms in extreme distress, can only be detected in space through the advanced technology of X-ray telescopes and gamma-ray satellites….