Space: The New Frontier

Did you ever wonder how astronauts cope with living in space? The unique environment the lack of taste in their food and the smell of canned air all contribute to the stresses of living and working in space.

The atmosphere of our planet is suffering from pollution and climate change. How are scientists and the latest technology working to improve the health of our air?

Get the latest updates on the new space hardware that is about to launch us into the next generation of space flight. While some rockets and capsules are on time others are not so fortunate.

As the EXO Mars and Curiosity rovers continue their scientific discoveries we prepare new missions to the Red Planet—both robotic and manned.

The Cassini space craft has completed its mission over Saturn Juno has reached Jupiter and has commenced its scientific observations of the giant planet and New Horizons speeds on to its next encounter at the edge of the solar system.

Sending probes throughout the solar system is both a mathematician's dream and an engineer's nightmare. Let's check out the latest probes that are about to slingshot around other planets in the solar system.

Cosmic and X rays are mysterious and highly powerful particles from deep space. Through scientific investigation we hope to finally discover where they come from.

The European Space Agency's LISA pathfinder space craft has led the way for a space-based gravity wave detector. What are gravity waves and why are they so hard to detect?

There is a mysterious part of our upper atmosphere where the earth interfaces with space: the ionosphere. Little is understood about this area but we know it affects radio communications GPS signals and satellites and changes between day and night.

As scientists continuously observe Earth from orbit they have built a data set that reveals much about how the Earth "breathes" and how life sustains itself on this living planet.