Katy Perry is set to launch into space on April 14 with an all-female crew aboard Blue Origin’s historic NS-31 mission. The event is being organized by journalist Lauren Sanchez, Bezos' fiancée.

They came up with the idea for a planetarium, blending research with entertainment—academics with the public's desire to learn about outer space. Well-known author Grace Flandrau was a winter ...

For the first time, the "Mission MushVroom" experiment on SpaceX's Fram2 mission will attempt to grow mushrooms in space. Left: Zinnmann via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. Right ...