Space museum

Museum visitors go on a grand tour of the solar system

The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum reopens on Oct. 14 with eight new galleries full of interactive exhibits, new artifacts and old ones as well. It is a more inclusive museum than in the past—featuring the WR-3 air racer built by Neal Loving, the first African American certified to race, and a T-38 flown by Jackie Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier. See the Apollo 11 command module, along with Alan Shepard’s Mercury spacesuit and a room dedicated to the 1903…

Image 4 of 26 from gallery of School of Earth & Space Exploration / Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects. Photograph by Bill Timmerman

Wherever you go, the cultural kaleidoscope of Taipei showcases exhilarating diversity. Incense-veiled temples with exquisite carvings and paintings dating back to dynastic times blend seamlessly in streets of the modern city. Taipei has dozens of world-class restaurants where gourmets can sample the most authentic Chinese cuisines. For gourmands, night markets not only offer scrumptious small eats but also the experience of veritable Taiwanese style of living.

"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." —Isaac Asimov

ennead architects has completed the world’s largest astronomy museum, set within an expansive green zone in shanghai, china.

The Mumbai-based practice used the recently-caught images of the Black Hole by NASA as a reference to create the abstract yet geometric structure in Visakhapatnam.

ATELIER BRÜCKNER has designed the 'journey of the pioneers' exhibition, stretching over three floors and 3,000 square meters.

Adventure Science Center and Sudekum Planetarium | SBLD Studio

The biggest obstacle standing in the way of Felix Baumgartner’s record-smashing, 24-mile Red Bull Stratos skydive on October 14, 2012, was also the one thing keeping him alive: his suit. “It was like breathing through a pillow,” the 44-year-old...