Photographers often go to exotic locations for unbelievable situations to see never before seen areas of the world to get that one perfect shot. It's a constant search of trying to outdo yourself to capture something new. But sorry, you can go to the ends of the world and not outdo NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy. This shot from space is beautiful. Read More >>

It was a simple 31-second clip, uploaded to YouTube in early January—a watch flopping weightlessly around its owner’s wrist, the first such video from Commander Chris Hadfield aboard the International Space Station. No explanation, no context, just metal links and a watch face swishing around a hairy Canadian arm like a tangled length of seaweed. This, and the dozens like it that would follow, is how Chris Hadfield, who returns to Earth today, became the most important astronaut in decades. Read More >>

When astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn left the ISS today to go fix a leaky ammonia pump all quicklike, everyone's favourite YouTubing Canadian Commander, Chris Hadfield, stayed inside to keep things going there. But, as he is wont to do, he took some seriously awesome shots of the spacewalkers at work. Read More >>

Chris Hadfield—CSA Astronaut, ISS Commander and the human explainer for all things space related—answers another question with his latest video: how do astronauts exercise with that zero gravity and all? Turns out, they do a lot of the same stuff we do: running on a treadmill, deadlifts, squats and more. Only their exercises require being carefully tied down by a harness. Read More >>

It probably can't quite compete with all the memories they have of landing on the moon, but the second best souvenir the Apollo 11 astronauts have of their adventure has to be this solid gold model of the Lunar Module given to them by Cartier on their return. Read More >>

Robots aren't only taking over our duties as factory workers and amusement park guides. They're also slowly taking over our cool jobs too, like on the International Space Station, where Kibo will serve to entertain Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata with inspirational tweets from Earth — and also look adorable floating around in zero gravity. Read More >>

What kid doesn't dream of growing up to be an astronaut one day? It's the one fantasy job that always manages to beat out professional athlete and ninja—but not everyone is destined to visit space. If your life path has led you to a more earthbound job, you can still dream about the stars with this awesome spacesuit duvet and pillowcase. Read More >>

Most of us grew up wanting to be an astronaut, and now we've all realised that it's actually a pretty tough gig. But this lovely little animated Ted Ed talk gives a great insight into what the life of an astronaut can really turn out like. Read More >>

While you've been out living your life in the sunshine and open air, scientists watched as six men willingly spent 520 days locked in windowless, steel tubes inside a Moscow warehouse. Results: this group, once cream of the astronaut crop, morphed into sluggish, unmotivated dudes. Read More >>

Sure, traipsing about the lunar surface is all fun and games when you've got a gold club and a flag for planting but if you're there to work, those puffy, sausage-fingered space suits are more hindrance than help. Read More >>

Rejoice! The Mars Curiosity mission has made its first discovery—and it hasn't arrived at Mars yet! For the first time ever, we know exactly the kind of radiation that a manned spacecraft could receive on its way to the Red Planet. This data is crucial for interplanetary travel, Humanity's next frontier. Read More >>

Thanks to JAXA—the Japanese Space Agency—the astronauts aboard the International Space Station have some new pets to keep them company. A small school of Medaka fish that will be used to study the impacts of radiation, muscle atrophy, and bone degradation in space. Read More >>

NASA is currently testing a prototype Z-1 spacesuit that looks more like a horrible, quasi-futuristic Ghostbusters and trash bag mash-up than an awesome suit that's meant to be worn in Space. Why does it look like this? Because NASA has no idea where—Mars, an asteroid, the Moon—it's headed next. Read More >>

Space smells. But what does it smell like? Different astronauts and scientists have said different things — from seared steak to hot metal, gunpowder to welding fumes, raspberries to rum and nearly any meaty metallic description in between — but it's known to be a gnarly scent. Now NASA wants to know for sure. It's hired a scent chemist to get to the bottom of the smell of space. Read More >>

Astronauts not only risk getting blown-up on exiting Earth's atmosphere; risk getting blown-out into the unforgiving vacuum of space, and risk dying in a fiery inferno burning up on re-entry, they also age faster thanks to the lack of gravity. Now researchers have found the enzyme responsible for killing-off their cells including their immune system, which could also be inhibited here on Earth to help slow the aging process. Read More >>