Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

The award notice read that the honor was “for services to U.K./U.S. relations in space and earth science.” The medal is a silver-gilt cross with blue enameled arms, featuring a central gold ...

On January 31, 1961, four-year-old chimpanzee Ham launched on a mission that would change space exploration forever. Strapped into NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket, he went on a suborbital flight that ...

Based on historical records, this unique documentary rhythmically depicts 59 test rocket launches, each carrying an animal, before humans were eventually sent into space.

A team of researchers spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimpanzees to determine that chimps may experience socially contagious urination − a phenomenon in which urination becomes ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to go to space. Ham reached an altitude of 157 miles during a 16 and a ...

Friday, Jan. 31, marks the anniversary of Ham the chimpanzee's space flight, which happened 64 years ago. Though not the first animal sent to space, Ham was the first hominid – any species including ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Bhubaneswar: Nandankanan Zoological Park welcomed its newest member as chimpanzee Durga gave birth to her first baby on Thursday morning, taking the zoo's chimpanzee population to eight.