During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II. In 1957, the beeps from Sputnik, a small Russian satellite, sent the Cold War between the Soviet Union ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a weapon so extreme it sounds fictional: launching nuclear warheads into low ...

The days are numbered for the International Space Station as NASA contracted SpaceX to deorbit the 495-ton structure after 2030. However, parts of the station won't be going on the one-way trip to the ...

The 1950s brought the Cold War and the Soviet American space race along with it. In lieu of the open battlefield, the two countries diverted their geopolitical tension to other arenas: economic output ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...

Astronauts Tom Stafford (left) and Wally Schirra (right) demonstrating with two model space crafts during an interview in the 1960s Donald Uhrbrock / Getty Images On December 15, 1965, NASA’s mission ...

A key launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was damaged during a Soyuz rocket launch, threatening Russia’s ability to send crews to the International Space Station. Experts warn repairs ...

A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...

The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan. By Kenneth Chang The launchpad Russia ...

Russia's main launch facility for sending cosmonauts into space was damaged during the latest launch of a Soyuz capsule, prompting emergency repairs. The accident at the Baikonur cosmodrome will ...