Space

Andrew McConnell grew up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland - now he captures the lives of ordinary people living in conflict zones, rather than those holding a gun.

For the first time in history, an independent group of college students is launching a rocket into space.

A mile under the Earth’s crust, inside the gold mines of South Africa, lie the deepest living animals on the planet: nematodes – or “Devil Worms” – the tiniest multicellular worms on Earth.

In honour of Weed Week on VICELAND it seemed appropriate to send a spliff into space. Enjoy this video of a spliff reaching 32.4km into the atmosphere.

In February, The Whitney Museum of American Art presented Red In View (Orbit), a 10 day continuous performance art piece by artists MPA, Amapola Prada, and Elizabeth Marcus-Sonenberg.

Motherboard meets with Doug Vakoch, founder of METI International, an organization dedicated to sending interstellar messages to extraterrestrial lifeforms.

Dr. Chris Mason is using genetics to understand how humans will prepare for -and defend themselves against— life in space.

Motherboard meets up with Lynn Rothschild, an astrobiologist at NASA who is working to define life in space.

The tourism industry has its sights set on the next frontier: space.

In this episode of Visionaries, we meet Lucy McRae, a self-described science fiction artist, filmmaker, and body architect who eventually wants to go to space.

This film blurs all boundaries between film and reality.

In form and execution, Approaching The Unknown solidifies our fascinations with Mars as the next great frontier for science and civilization.