Sunday (June 16) marks the 50th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's landmark 1963 flight, which launched her into history as the first woman to fly to space — only two years after Yuri Gagarin performed the first spaceflight ever in …

Space fans that download the app can "command a mission" to any object they find on a sky chart. Slooh's professional telescopes will take a photo of the cosmic sight, providing the user with a time, date and observatory-stamped image that will be …

See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article. Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy | Northrop N1M: John K. "Jack" Northrop’s dream of a flying wing became a reality on July 3, 1940, when his N-1M (Northrop Model 1 Mockup) first flew. One of the world’s preeminent aircraft [...]

See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article. Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: No reconnaissance aircraft in history has operated globally in more hostile airspace or with such complete impunity than the SR-71, the world’s fastest jet-propelled aircraft. The Blackbird’s performance and operational achievements placed it [...]

(WPIX) — Photo evidence of an “S-shaped” UFO over a medieval castle by a woman in the Netherlands was apparently “not manipulated”, according to the Huffington Post.

A new iPad app allows anyone around the world to take telescope photos of celestial objects from the comfort of a couch. The online Slooh Space Camera — an organization that hosts live views and webcasts of cosmic sights from a network of …