Space

Terry Virts flew the space shuttle Endeavor and was Commander of the International Space Station. He'll be at the Alberta Bair on January 28th with National Geographic Live, View From Above.

Video captured by a National Weather Service meteorologist in Brownsville, Texas, shows a massive fireball lighting up the sky over the city.

It's a slow ride straight up above the earth, above airplanes, and almost to outer space. Wanna go?

NASA is celebrating the Hubble space telescopes 30th birthday. Enter your month/date of birth and you can see a photo the satellite captured on your birthday. Cool.

As good as David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' is, it's still rather surreal watching someone perform it from space.

Zombies. Man-killing space aliens. Killer clowns. It's okay if these are the first things that run through your mind when you watch this insane footage of a meteor landing in Russia. The meteor crashed into a building, and destroyed it. As of now, at least 1,000 people have been reported injured, and up to 3,000 buildings have suffered damage from the resulting shock waves caused by the meteor...

The Angry Birds franchise turned to NASA for the development and promotion of their game Angry Birds Space. Now it appears the space agency is turning to the super-addictive game for their latest strategy to explore the great beyond.

Even scientists have soul! Take a listen to 'Jewel in the Night,' by Colonel Chris Hadfield.

Today a base-jumper named Felix Baumgartner attempted a record-breaking high altitude jump from the place where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins.

As a way to promote its show ‘Chasing UFOs’ and potentially impress aliens with our highly-advanced Twitter technology, the National Geographic Channel will broadcast tweets into the deepest recesses of space this coming August.

Imagine being an astronaut on a mission who’s stuck with the same old food for weeks or months (it’s not like you can call out for pizza). Like most people who are faced with similar dining choices day after day, you’d likely eat less — and that’s a concern for scientists. So they’re recruiting volunteers to help them test out edible fare in preparation for a future mission.

We can’t say for sure if he’d gone where no Lego has gone before, but a red-shirted Lego Man clutching a Canadian flag has taken quite an unlikely trip into outer space.