space

Sometimes it's just cool to blow things up. And it's even cooler to launch things into space.

Steve Anderson seems to be your average mechanic during the day. But once the stars align, the Indianapolis man turns into a whole different type of person, The Indianapolis Star reported.

Science is just mind-blowing sometimes. Remember last week when we made history by landing on a comet? Well, that comet has a weak magnetic field that appears to be oscillating at low frequencies. To put that into terms that all of us normal human beings can understand, it's making an eerie sound.

NASA endured a massive failure on Tuesday. An unmanned Antares rocket, intended to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, exploded seconds after launch from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Two years ago, we watched in awe as daredevil Felix Baumgartner set a world record by jumping from a specially designed capsule from a height of 128,000 feet. Then on Saturday, out of nowhere, we heard Baumgartner's record had been broken!

Well, this is certainly a different type of big bang theory.

As good as David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' is, it's still rather surreal watching someone perform it from space.

The experiment on surface tension in space using a wet washcloth is pretty cool no matter who you are.

Adult film star Coco Brown has a wild fantasy; a private Dutch company is making it a reality. Brown, 32, who has been in several adult movies with silly titles, will become the first adult film star in space in the spring of 2014 (unless there's a Super 8 of Buzz Aldrin out there that we don't know about)...

Scientists are making revolutionary advancements in how they study alien planets. Recently, astronomers discovered that they could use the process of reflecting starlight in order to create composite maps of unknown worlds that would enable them to define pertinent aspects of planetary life, such as land, water and clouds.

The Angry Birds franchise turned to NASA for the development and promotion of their game Angry Birds Space. Now it appears the space agency is turning to the super-addictive game for their latest strategy to explore the great beyond.

Even scientists have soul! Take a listen to 'Jewel in the Night,' by Colonel Chris Hadfield.