Terry Virts, a retired US astronaut, has called for scaling back joint missions with Russia on the International Space ...

The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted ...

On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station. The new component was named Kristall, and ...

It was here, at Baikonur, that the countdown to a new era in human history began – where dreams became reality. From this very site, in 1957, the R-7 rocket carried the first artificial satellite into ...

On May 27, 2009, three astronauts launched to the International Space Station to complete the crew of Expedition 20.

Terry Virts’ maiden Space Shuttle mission was the final assembly flight for the International Space Station (ISS), a historic milestone in post-Cold War collaboration with Russia. Now he’s calling for ...

In a striking move that signals a new phase in the lunar space race, China and Russia have announced a joint plan to install ...

The multi-billion dollar, decade-long undertaking, which still requires sign-off by President Vladimir Putin, calls for RUB4.5 trillion ($56 billion) in space spending, including RUB1 trillion for the ...

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore last year set off for an eight-day Starliner test flight that turned into a nine-month stay ...

In January, the president made an executive order calling for what he described as an “Iron Dome for America”, a reference to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin on Wednesday as Ukraine seeks ...

For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a professor ...