When Titanic was released in 1997, part of the media craze surrounding the film was director James Cameron's painstaking work on re-creating the ship, staterooms, and even table linens with historical accuracy. One person not impressed was astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who became a vocal critic of Titanic's depiction of that fateful night sky. In meetings with James himself and in public Read more

NASA has discovered yet another planet in our solar system that contains water. Saturns brightest moon, Enceladus, has been found to contain stress fractures on its icy surface that expand and contract as it circles Saturn. Such a flexible surface can only mean one thing — a planet covered in water. What's more, the water below the frozen surface could be hot, and with hot water comes Read more

NASA's rovers are busy scouting the Martian landscape while astronauts here on Earth dream of making a trip to the red planet someday, so it's only appropriate that Mars gets a starring role in current movies and future reboots, too. Before you go planning your 500-day trip to outer space, check out these films that revolve around Mars and its mysterious history. Read more

If you've run out of room on your home's walls to hang any more awesome Etsy prints, look to your trusty mobile device as a vehicle for more beautiful imagery. The collection of gadget covers from Etsy user CosmicQuilts brings the universe into your world with fabric hand printed with photos of nebulae, far away galaxies, and star dust. All the designs shown here can be resized for your device of Read more

Space: the final frontier. If someone on your list has always wanted to explore strange new worlds, give a gift worthy of the most intrepid space voyage. Stargazers and those with Milky Way wanderlust will love these odes to the vast Solar System without the rigors of astronaut training or long wait for civilian space flight. Read more

Could there be any more perfect combination than space fanaticism and mid-century modern graphic design? Answer: no. Which is why this Kickstarter project called "Beyond Earth: A Poster Series" by Stephen Di Donato will make a beautifully, streamlined addition to your living room wall. Inspired by "mid-century magazine advertisements and ... the printing limitations of silkscreening and Read more

Bank up your vacation time and, well, money in the bank because by 2016 Russian company Orbital Technologies plans to open its Commercial Space Station as a vacation rental to the nonastronaut public. The journey to get to the space station some 217 miles above Earth will take two days on a Soyuz rocket. It's not clear what activities beyond floating, sleeping vertically, stargazing, and Read more

NASA's Juno spacecraft on its way to Jupiter in real life, but there have been countless Hollywood movies that have explored our own galaxy — near and far — for years. If the recent flurry of NASA news has you in a spacey kind of mood, check out these seven films that will satisfy your galactic cravings; some may even scare the pants off of you. Read more

Mars is on the brain this week — NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found what appears to be flowing water on the surface of Mars. Of course, our obsession with the red planet and the little green men that come from it dates back a lot farther than this week. Take a look back at some fun and interesting images of Mars, NASA, and space in the gallery. Read more

NASA's Juno spacecraft took off from Florida for a five-year mission to Jupiter yesterday, and while we already shared some fun facts about the mission (including those adorable Lego figures that are on board), we finally have some pics of the liftoff to share as well. Click through the gallery to see the first solar-powered craft (the solar panels are in the "closed" position in these images) Read more