It stands up to 118 meters (387 feet) tall and towers over most structures on Earth. It also includes the Statue of Liberty. Further, its massive height allows it to carry astronauts, Orion, and cargo ...

Space is full of strange and fascinating phenomena that often outdo science fiction. Here are some bite-sized facts about our ...

Food Technician Al Russ, left, and Food Scientist Steve French, right, show a finished packet of freeze-dried shrimp fried rice in NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory at Johnson Space Center in ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest structure humans have ever put into space. In fact, it's so large that it wasn’t launched in its entirety. It was sent up in pieces, and then ...

Meet the narrator of Emily Austin’s second novel, “Interesting Facts About Space”: Her name is Enid. She is a tall lesbian with short hair and “a sleeve of tattoos featuring anthropomorphic rats ...

Space! It's been called the "final frontier." It's powerful, infinite and some would say unknowable. But astronomer Dean Regas is not among them. As he says in the forward to his new "1,000 Facts ...

On the night of March 13-14, a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse will be visible from North and South America, Western Europe, far Western Africa, and New Zealand. To prepare for this stunning event, ...

Exactly nine days after Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson space trip, world’s richest man Jeff Bezos also successfully launched into space on July 20. On returning to Earth, he described the ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of Narcan, a nasal spray used to treat opioid overdoses, for over-the-counter, non-prescription purchase. There are still challenges, like the high ...

The offbeat and delightful latest from Austin (Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead) plunges readers into the quirky and turbulent inner life of Enid, an employee at a NASA-like agency. The ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than 2,000 years old. The General Sherman giant sequoia is the largest known ...