Texas senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have hit back at a Smithsonian memo on relocating Space Shuttle Discovery, claiming ...

During the Cold War, space was more than exploration — it was a battlefield for prestige and power. When NASA unveiled the Space Shuttle, the Soviet Union responded with its own creation: the Buran.

In a world where raw tonnage commanded respect, these war machines pushed the limits of human engineering. From a mammoth ...

Red Square and VDNKh easily rank among the most striking places I've visited -- both for their historical significance and architectural splendour.My admiration for Russian culture, vision and ...

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully reached the International Space Station after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on ...

A Russian satellite crash landed in a field south west of Moscow earlier this month while carrying some unusual cargo: about 1,500 flies, 75 mice, seeds, a bunch of microbes, and various cell tissues.

The International Space Station (ISS) may never again be visited by a space plane. NASA's space shuttle orbiters were instrumental in building the ISS, and in keeping it operational for its first ...

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 ...

It's also called Russia's "mini-menagerie." They came from outer space: 75 mice, over 1,500 flies, cell cultures, microorganisms, plant seeds and more. A Russian biological research satellite toting ...

A former NASA astronaut turned US senator has joined with other lawmakers to insist that his two rides to space remain on display in the Smithsonian. "Why should hundreds of millions of taxpayer ...