A surprising number of animals have been to space including dogs, monkeys, tortoises, and obviously those pesky Homo sapiens. You might not know, however, that a cat has also gone to space – and a new ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it comes to animals that heroically blasted off into space during the space race, names like ...

The first cat to launch into space and live to meow about it is getting her own monument — thanks to the crowdfunded support of more than 1,100 of her fans. A campaign on the website Kickstarter on ...

Félicette, a former stray who was sent into space by French researchers in 1963, now has a bronze statue in her honor at France's International Space University. Public Domain Félicette, the only cat ...

NASA beamed ultra-high definition video of a cat named Taters back to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away, the space agency said Monday. The 15-second cat video was sent to Earth as an experiment ...

A 101-second video of a cat, Taters, chasing a laser pointer, was successfully transmitted from the Psyche spacecraft, 19 million miles from Earth, to the Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory as a ...

An Oregon cat lover has vowed to memorialize his late feline friend Pikachu by sending the dead cat’s cremated remains into space so it can orbit the planet and eventually fall back toward earth, ...

Unlike her canine and simian counterparts, the world's only feline astronaut does not have any lasting commemoration or grave site. A Kickstarter campaign seeks to change that by planning a ...

Cats have many defining qualities, including aloofness, random aggression and a lack of understanding about personal space. One cat that epitomizes the latter character trait is Belen, who has gone ...