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

The final space shuttle mission continues ahead of schedule this week, as the crew of Atlantis make their temporary home in space inside the International Space Station. Read more

Weather permitting, this morning's Atlantis liftoff will mark the very last NASA space shuttle launch in history. There's been a lot of talk about the space shuttle program over the past few months, but how much do you really know about NASA's various space shuttles? Take a look at some fun facts about their size, and how far they've actually flown. Read more

Three, two, one, blast off! You can't take a child to the moon (yet), but you can still create an outer space birthday party theme. Dessert table guru and mother of two Amy Atlas helped her son celebrate turning five with these out-of-this-world designs. Check out her tips! Read more