Why being first to return to the moon matters.

Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 ...

British scientists have conceded that their prediction that the rocket of Sputnik I would plunge to earth Saturday was incorrect. This admission confirmed the judgment of J. Allen Hynek ...

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen mixed with kerosene, from launch facilities that are still functional and no less remote today in Tyuratam ...

As rocket technology improved and spaceflight ... the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into space, the Soviet Union had made headlines ...

Ape to ride next Sputnik, dog still alive in No. 2 By HENRY ... The White House said today this government is studying Russia's rocket advances "very carefully."The statement came as congressional ...

The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous pedigree: it was actually a modified R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile. Western media covered the ...

SpaceX chief executive and technology tycoon Elon Musk promised on Saturday to help the incoming US administration fix the governme ...

The Chinese-built AI model is proof that the most innovative breakthroughs don’t come from boundless resources – they come from constraints.