A space story that wasn't about space: Why Tom Wolfe wrote The Right Stuff. It was a stylish account of America's race for space, and the "psychological mystery" of the men in shimmering ...

The universe, Milky Way and other incredible space objects are the centerpiece of "The Short Story of the Universe", by astronomer Gemma Lavender.The book is available now from Laurence King ...

Trump’s Space Budget: SpaceX, already one of the biggest NASA and Pentagon contractors, could win billions of dollars in new contracts if President Trump’s budget proposal is approved by Congress.

In 1957, the Space Age began with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Since then, the number of objects humans have hurled toward the stars has soared to the thousands. As those ...

Similarly, the Story Time From Space team is planning to build upon the books already in space by having the astronauts perform story-related experiments.

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to WALL-E, Erika Nesvold picks her favourite sci-fi films set in space (and explains why E.T. missed out) Based on the excellent (and more true-to-life) non-fiction book ...

If the dreams of space agencies and private companies come to fruition, within a couple of decades we’ll have orbiting hotels and lunar mining colonies, and the first human visitors will be en ...

The first thing you need to know is that “Ad Astra” is not really about space travel and settlement. Instead, it’s a story about an emotionally isolated man yearning for human connection.