Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space that will try to surpass human limits that have existed for more than 50 years. Supported by a team of experts, Felix Baumgartner will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to more than 120,000 feet / 36,576 meters and make a record-breaking freefall jump in the attempt to become the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall  [ Read More ]

There’s water, water everywhere in National Geographic News’s most popular space coverage of 2009: A probe proved there’s water on the moon, a Mars lander’s leg got all wet, fishlike life may swim a Jupiter moon’s seas, and more.

Do you want to know a really cool thing you can do with a telescope? Just to let you know, it is not spying on your neighbor 10 houses down the street or trying to look in the bedroom of the gorgeous girl that lives next door. The answer is look at the stars and take pictures of them. Now this can not be done with just a regular telescope.  [ Read More ]