From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...

On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a ...

SpaceX alternately gained the ire of both the United States and Russia: first for providing Ukraine with internet access ...

Kyiv. Three people, including a 5-year-old child, were killed in a massive drone attack by Russian forces on Ukraine’s ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while ...

The worlds first artificial satellite, the Soviet Unions Sputnik 1, was launched in October 1957. Just three months later, it ...

Kim Jong-un announced that North Korea would have an intercontinental ballistic missile, submarines capable of launching ...

The Blue Origin suborbital flight is scheduled to launch later this year on the New Shepherd, and it will mark the first all-woman trip into space since Soviet Union astronaut Valentina Tereshkova ...

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

Orbital space launches have rapidly increased. New records have been set for the last four years. In 2024, there was an orbital launch attempt every 34 hours. Spaceflights are also carrying more -- ...