In November 2023, a ghost from the Cold War era resurfaced. The M-55 Geofizika, a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, once a Soviet secret, now captured in satellite imagery, stirs the world into ...

When the Berlin Wall fell nearly four decades ago, many in the West celebrated, believing that free market economics had finally put the scourge of centralized planning in the rearview mirror. But ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...

During the Cold War, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center boasted four armored personnel carriers, all M113s, and they represented one ...

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

A bit farther north, The Museum of Flight in Seattle landed at No. 2 on the list. The museum has more than 175 air and spacecraft and bills itself as the world’s largest independent, nonprofit ...

The 940-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” as it’s formally titled, has consumed Congress as its shared priority with the ...

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But ...

I called senior Pentagon officials twice and raised the issue with staff at the National Security Council. I noted it was ...

NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...

The White House is billing Friday’s relative quiet following a public and fiery clash between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk as a détente. Trump allies, ill at ease about the possibility ...