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Would you want to go to Mars? Financial tycoon Dennis Tito, who himself took a ride in space on the International Space Station, has unveiled a trip to Mars for husband and wife astronauts to launch within five years. They wouldn’t land on the planet, but come to within 100 miles of the surface of Mars then return. The whole trip would take 16 months in a space capsule half the size of an RV. Read

NASA is so confident the world won't end on December 21st that they're releasing a video ahead of time.  The video "Why The World Didn't End Yesterday" was originally scheduled to be released on December 22nd, the day after the Mayan calendar supposedly indicates the end of the world.

TMZ is reporting that Sally Ride has passed away.  In 1983 she did something that no other woman before her had done.  She was the first woman in space.  But with that trip, she also broke another record.

An asteroid bigger than a jumbo jet is on course to come close to the Earth and moon on Tuesday.  Its been about 35 years since a space object of this size has graced the proximity of our planet.  But not to worry, scientists say

Looking for something to do this weekend that won't cost you a dollar?  Stay up late Friday night and check out the stars.  I'm not trying to be a cheeseball, but this weekend is the Orionid meteor shower and it peaks on Friday and Saturday mornings.

NASA scientists say that dead satellite returned to earth overnight somewhere over the Pacific, but with a 500 mile area where it could have fallen they're not sure exactly where it fell.  Most of it could have fallen into the ocean.  Some of it could have reached land.

It took 10 billion dollars and 10 years to develop, but the first space shuttle made its first public debut in a ceremony in California on this date in 1976.  The following year the Enterprise, made its first flight, not from Kennedy Space Center and not into space.  It was launched from the top of a 747 and then glided back to Edwards Air Force Base.

With the space shuttle program having come to an end, NASA has quickly revealed its next plan for returning to space.  NASA will work with one of its longtime commercial partners and a European aerospace company to develop a new rocket that will launch humans into low Earth orbit from the Kennedy Space Center.  Called the Liberty launch system it'll use a modified solid rocket booster from the shu

With the Soviet Union having put the first man in space just a month before it became a personal goal of President John F. Kennedy to send an American to the moon by the end of the decade of the 1960’s.  He made it a national priority and a mission he said all Americans would share, saying "it wouldn’t be one man going to the moon - it will be an entire nation." The U.S. an...

The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for its final mission into space this morning before it’s retired leaving just one more mission for the shuttle program this summer.  After more than 30 years it’ll bring an end to a fleet of spacecraft that have been called the finest and most versatile ever built. Columbia was...

It was more than 50 years ago when Alan Sheppard became the first American to fly into space.  Since then 12 men have walked on the moon.  More than 500 people from 39 countries including 55 women have flown in space.  But what has space exploration done to improve things here on earth?  Here’s a sho...

Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was the International Space Station. Big thanks to WYRK listener Tom Garwol of Williamsville for providing the link to this very cool video of the construction of the International Space Station.  You can check it out by clicking right here. ...