June 29, 2014
3:32 am

This image provided by NASA shows the launch of the high-altitude balloon carrying a saucer-shaped vehicle for NASA to test technology that could be used to land on Mars, Saturday, June 28, 2014 in Kauai, Hawaii. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA tests Mars-bound ‘flying saucer’ over Pacific

Technology must be advanced if humanity is to fly beyond low-Earth orbit, says NASA scientist

By Christopher Weber

May 12, 2014
2:29 pm

Artist's rendering of the proposed orbit launch for the SpaceIL craft (photo credit: courtesy)

Israeli Lunar XPrize team shoots for the moon

With a dishwasher-sized craft, 3 young men hope to make the Jewish state the fourth ever to land on the lunar surface

By Ben Sales

February 23, 2014
6:01 pm

A model of SpaceIL's lunar landing craft prototype , which an Israeli group proposes to send to the moon next year (Photo credit: Courtesy)

As countdown looms, Israel’s moon bid already a winner

SpaceIL believes it has a real shot at Google’s $30m. prize, and is hailing the innovation and inspiration fueled by trailblazing project

By David Shamah

February 20, 2014
11:03 pm

A conceptional illustration of a potential Mars colony (photo credit: Courtesy NASA)

No Red Planet for you, Muslims told

United Arab Emirates religious authorities ban participation in interplanetary voyages

By Gavriel Fiske

September 16, 2013
1:28 pm

A Persian cat in a bag. (photo credit: CC BY akk_rus, Flickr)

Iran may send cat blasting into space

After reportedly launching a monkey, Tehran plans to advance space program with a feline astronaut

By AP

July 10, 2013
6:54 am

An astronaut simulation at SpaceMania (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Spacemania show takes kids up, up and away

If you’ve ever wanted to know what it’s like to be an astronaut, head down to the Tel Aviv Port

By Nicole Levin

February 22, 2013
12:59 am

Image of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi as astronaut uploaded to Axe space contest site by April 6 (Screenshot)

Morsi to the moon

President’s former April 6 allies want to send him to space as protest

February 1, 2013
8:08 am

The crew of the space shuttle Columbia, seen in June 2003 (photo credit: AP/NASA/File)

If a space shuttle is doomed, do you tell the crew?

Senior NASA official says space agency ignored chances to get a closer look at Columbia’s damaged heat shield

By Seth Borenstein

January 31, 2013
9:17 am

Rona Ramon (left) visits a school in Modiin named after her husband, Ilan Ramon, along with two NASA astronauts in February 2008 (photo credit: Flash90)

Decade after shuttle disaster, Rona Ramon still trying to cope

Ilan Ramon’s widow says she is trying to find new meaning in life, but struggling to deal with the loss of her son six years after her husband disintegrated on reentry to earth

By Aron Heller

January 27, 2013
4:23 pm

The Israel Space Agency's Facebook app (Photo credit: Courtesy)

First ‘Space Week’ gives down-to-earth look at the stars

The near heavens are atop the agenda, with lectures, exhibitions, and a major international conference taking place here

By David Shamah

January 14, 2013
6:53 pm

US won’t build a ‘death star’

In marvelously geeky response to popular online petition, official says administration ‘does not support blowing up planets’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

August 25, 2012
11:38 pm

This July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, the first men to land on the moon, plant the U.S. flag on the lunar surface. (photo credit: AP Photo/NASA)

Neil Armstrong, first man on moon, 82

Astronaut visited Israel in 2007, told young space hopefuls in Haifa that space travel proved ‘the human species, all of us, is not forever chained to the planet Earth’

By AP and Times of Israel staff

February 1, 2012
11:02 pm

‘Spaceman’ Bill McArthur gives Israeli kids firsthand mission report

Astronaut William S. McArthur visited Israel’s National Science Museum, and told over 200 kids about his adventures “up above”

By David de Piciotto

Topic: space travel