On October 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. This was the last mission in ...

Ivory Coast military coup leader ousted; Soviet Venera probes send back first images of Venus; Australian government outlaws ...

The An-225 is (by some measures) the largest aircraft to fly and was one of the last major projects of the Soviet Union.

On Oct. 18, 1867, the United States completed its purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million, taking possession of the territory ...

The Kremlin has denied that China is providing it with battlefield information, saying it has its own satellites. But experts ...

Many believed that perhaps the Soviet Union would ultimately triumph in the Space Race to the Moon. But while NASA’s Apollo ...

While the sitting US government strips NASA of its expert leadership and funding, it seems China is more than happy to take up the mantle. A new report from the Commercial Space Federation, a lobbying ...

Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support deep space missions and METI—the attempt to message extraterrestrial ...

Charlie MacVean, a submarine commander revered by the U.S. Navy for the daring spy missions he carried out against the Soviet Union during the Cold War era, died of natural causes in San Diego on Sept ...

As Jonathan Roll neared completion of a master's degree in science and technology policy at Arizona State University three years ago, he did some research into recent developments by China's ascendant ...

The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year. In the heated frenzy of ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...