It appears that the Soviet government lied about the fatal crash of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. One conspiracy suggests the Soviet government was responsible for his death.

On March 27, 1968, the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, died. He was in a MiG-15 on a routine training flight with his instructor when his plane crashed. The official explanation has been that he had to avoid a "foreign" object, but new information from Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov tells a different story.

China launched their first space station almost exactly a year ago, and today they launched their first three-person crew to give it a try. This mission will be China's longest, at 15 days, and will include China's second female taikonaut. Sounds great, even if what they're visiting isn't really a space station.

Great news today on the space exploration front as it was announced that noted Italian supercar/chrome Fisker enthusiast and "musician" Justin Bieber will be getting a ride to the stars thanks to Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic commercial spaceflights.

This past weekend, the spherical re-entry capsule from the Russian spacecraft Bion-M landed. Inside was a menagerie of mice, lizards, and fish. And while the fact that this was the longest animal-only mission ever, what's really incredible is that their spaceship is a direct descendent of the first ever manned…

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.