On October 4, 1957, the erstwhile Soviet Union sent Sputnik-1 into outer space. The launch of the world’s first artificial ...

A new paper has listed the top 50 most problematic pieces of space debris currently in low Earth orbit (LEO). Most of them ...

The University of Kansas City held its first day of classes with 264 students and 17 instructors. The Kansas City metro is ...

The successful launch of Sputnik — the world’s first artificial satellite to orbit Earth — on October 4, 1957 rocketed ...

Hamas launched massive coordinated attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, beginning one of the worst wars ...

The dates are in recognition of the Oct. 4, 1957 launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, thus opening the ...

Luna 2, launched by the Soviet Union in September 1959, achieved the first human-made object impact on a celestial body other than Earth (the Moon). The mission's journey to the Moon lasted ...

Former Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s much-anticipated novel ‘Final Orbit,’ set in the backdrop of the 1970s space race between ...

The Long March 9 super heavy reusable rocket transportation system and 13,000-satellite constellation of the Guo Wang network ...

On Sept. 29, 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit. This was the eighth space station the Soviet Union launched under its Salyut program and the first second-generation Salyut space ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will soon have a rival to Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink, as it tries to shift away from outdated thinking that has allowed SpaceX to win the crown of ...

Two Russian surveillance satellites are "pursuing" satellites used by German armed forces, Germany 's defence minister has ...