Watch as the International Space Station takes shape in this time-lapsed NASA animation of its decade-long assembly, which began in 1998. Also, see a time-lapsed flyaround of the orbital outpost ...

Creating the Milky Way Animation Sequence By Michael Marlowe 3-D Animator. Despite our prayers, designing a continuous, two-minute, three-dimensional push through the Milky Way tu ...

KS2 Mathematics and Numeracy Shape and space learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

The shapes of bubbles and clouds in outer space demonstrate that physics can do some pretty bizarre things on a giant scale. Take RCW 120, for example. The star-forming bubble, about 4,200 light ...

More recently, the Hubble Space Telescope and others have produced stunning images of the zoo of bizarre shapes and intense colors these objects display.

Clara Moskowitz is a science and space writer who joined the Space.com team in 2008 and served as Assistant Managing Editor from 2011 to 2013.

Sorry. Couldn’t resist. Hadfield’s new book, “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth,” goes into detail about what it takes to be in shape for space travel.

The European Space Agency’s CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered a planet the shape of a rugby ball, pulled into that form by extreme gravitational forces.