Launched on October 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 was an 84-kilogram metal sphere with four antennas and a simple radio transmitter.

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

Laika, a stray dog from Moscow, became the first living creature to orbit Earth aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957. Her one-way mission ...

Laika was launched into orbit by the Soviet space scientists to test the life expectancy in outer space. The Soviet media ...

A gentle, mixed-breed dog weighing just 6 kilograms, Laika was chosen for her calm temperament and small size, making her ...

November 3 has long been a day marked by significant events that have shaped the course of history around the world.Starting with a global milestone, o ...

One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.” History was made when Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Lunar Module on ...

China is both communist and working passably well, something he and the United States generally are being forced reluctantly to confront.

On the lunar surface, every “night” lasts roughly 14 Earth days. With the sun out of view, temperatures plunge to nearly minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit, solar panels stop generating power, batteries ...

“We are effectively in a Space Race 2.0.” That is how Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), rightly framed the high stakes in this new era of rapid innovation and ...

Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say. Meanwhile China insists it isn’t in a ...