In the history of space exploration, the Soviet Union achieved some remarkable feats, one of which was landing a spacecraft on Venus,something that seemed impossible given the harsh conditions of the ...

The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted ...

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear ...

NASA's Surveyor 1 landed on the lunar surface to become the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. Surveyor 1 took ...

That would end about a decade later with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Diplomacy was given the lead ... to contemplate extraterrestrial systems based in outer space ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

For the next few evenings, the waxing gibbous moon is already well up as skies darken. If you happen to see it, keep in mind ...

“Thanks to the established mechanisms of cooperation, the political will of our countries' leaders, and the efforts of the ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly ...

An analysis asserts the space industry is significantly undervalued, highlighting the impact of satellite technology, the ...

It was here, at Baikonur, that the countdown to a new era in human history began – where dreams became reality. From this very site, in 1957, the R-7 rocket carried the first artificial satellite into ...

Fusionism holds that virtue and liberty are mutually reinforcing, and that neither is possible in any lasting or meaningful ...