Speaking of gold rushes, we’re having our own in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California right now. No, it’s not about gold, even though→

Phys.org: Robots are being developed all the time to do what we wish and to go where we can’t. This week, inventor Bill Stone→

Ian Hutcheon is a 40 year old British astronomer living in Chile that has has combined his two great loves, astronomy and wine making.→

Since there are no washing machines on the International Space Station, astronauts often wear the same underwear for three or four days before disposing→

In space, what happens to the bubbles in a glass of beer? How do you pour it? Can you even drink beer in space?→

Now that the last space shuttle has returned to Earth, NASA can get out of the way, and let the entrepreneurs race to the→

It’s too late for Oktoberfest, but the world’s first space beer will soon be available, if tests by Astronauts4Hire prove it has the right→

There’s a popular myth that NASA spent “millions” of dollars developing a pen for astronauts to use in the weightless environment of a space→

According to Ubergizmo, NASA supplied the astronauts on the recently launched Discovery with special glasses that would make it easier for them to see→

An unlikely duo has teamed up to design spacesuits with the space tourism market in mind. At first, Nikolay Moiseev, a long-time Russian Federal→

Wired: A new startup company’s $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle. Called “I Dream→

You may have heard that earlier this week a consortium of billionaires has started a company called Planetary Resources to mine the asteroids. If→

Are Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, (Avatar and Titanic) director James Cameron, and Ross Perot Jr starting a company to mine asteroids?→

ExtremeTech: “Your dream of visiting the Red Planet may soon come true if the claim made by Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, actually comes→

It may only exist in the minds of The Spoof writers, but space garbage does exist. What are your ideas for eliminating space waste?→

io9: Forget spring break trips to Cancun — in the future everyone will holiday in the Commercial Space Station created by Orbital Technologies (assuming→

The X Prize awarded $10,000,000 to the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft to a height of 100 kilometers, twice within→

SpaceX hit an important milestone by sending its Falcon 9 rocket into space, reports VentureBeat.SpaceX’s promise of commercialized space travel seems to be inching→

Jean-Jacques Velkeniers lives in Belgium and since he was a little boy he wanted to go into space. Now that Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic→

In a high tech first — really, really high — astronauts in space finally have Internet access. Space station resident Timothy (TJ) Creamer had→