SpaceX, the space vehicle company founded by Elon Musk, aka the CEO of Tesla, is constantly testing components for its space rockets. The piece undergoing testing here looks small, but it's actually big enough to fit a school bus inside, and yet somehow its still beautiful.

What makes Chris Hadfield's space videos so great is how mundane they are. He does the same kind of things you do right in your kitchen, as you can see in this fantastic "Hadfield at Home" parody.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the launch of America's first space station, Skylab. Skylab wasn't the first space station ever (that honor goes to the Soviet's Salyut 1), but like many American cars of that same era, it was huge and comfortable in a way not seen since.

Thinking about space sex? Good luck! Washing your hands? Well, that won't be easy out there either. Space is a wonderfully scary place where everyday materials and the human body go through weird changes.

Travelling through space is a mind-bending proposition. Gravity gets weird, the passage of time gets weird, and you drink your own pee.

A while back, I had a delightfully terrible idea to use spacecraft-type maneuvering rockets to make a better-handling race car. I thought I was pretty clever, but then I saw this picture of a Corvair with a rocket strapped to its side way back in the '60s.

A new private rocket, Antares, launched for the first time yesterday. Soon we'll need to do a buyer's guide for all these rockets.

Hey guys, wanna party on an asteroid? NASA is apparently working to make that happen for all of us.

Are you one of those fans of the Hubble Space Telescope who's sick of all the cut-rate control panel knockoffs for your home Hubble Mission Control simulator? Isn't it time you finally stepped up and really got the equipment you deserve? Of course it is. That's why you need to grab that $75,000 from your swear jar to…