Science Fiction & Fantasy

Will I Make a Good Space Traveller? An Infographic Guide

Tim Sanders designed this handy guide to determine your suitability for space travel. With space tourism and perhaps one-way travel to Mars opportunities on the horizon, now is the time to consider whether or not you’d be…

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The Dangers of Space Travel via Astronaut Gumby

Learn of the true dangers of space travel when Gumby and Pokey fly their spaceship off to distant planets. Dinosaurs and trains and pianists, oh my!

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Off to Bed… Hey, Look at Me, I’m an Astronaut!

Next time you tuck yourself in bed to dream of space travel and orbiting Earth with Sandra Bullock, you can look the part with this incredible pillowcase and duvet set.

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The Soyuz Space Capsule Returns to Earth

Have you ever wondered what it's actually like to plummet through Earth's atmosphere inside a tiny capsule? This video shows the Soyuz crew returning to Earth.

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A Graphic History of Space Travel

This incredible infographic provides a visual walk-through of the history of space travel, beginning with the Soviet Sputnik through the Apollo missions to what lies in the future.

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10 Ways Space Damages Your Body

We all know space travel is dangerous. This video provides the top 10 ways space damages your body, from microgravity's effect on your body to radiation to isolation.

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Shooting for Mars: Graphic Shows Every Mission

This wonderful infographic shows every mission to the red planet, Mars, and indicates country of origin, the type of mission, and whether it succeeded or failed.

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Can We Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light?

Harold G. White, a physicist and advanced propulsion engineer at NASA, is working on a team that is trying to determine whether faster-than-light travel (aka "warp drive").

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NASA’s Voyager 1 Nears Interstellar Space

NASA's Voyager 1 is now more than 11.5 billion miles from Earth and has encountered a region of the heliosphere that scientists didn't predict.

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How Will Space Travelers Navigate Interstellar Space?

A team at the Max Planck Institute have proposed a method for navigating beyond our solar system by using pulsars as GPS-satellite-like beacons.

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Future Space Travel and Alien Life as Seen in 1940

See what the future looks like and how life on other planets in our solar system may have evolved in these illustrations done by Frank R. Paul in the 1940s.

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Will We Ever Visit Other Stars?

Vsauce explores the probability that humans will ever develop the technology to visit other stars -- before we are destroyed by a meteor or otherwise become extinct.

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What if You Were Born in Space?

This video from Vsauce explores what you might look like if you were born, not on Earth like every human to date, but in space.

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