Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet rocket launched Earth's second artificial satellite, Sputnik 2, into orbit, carrying a living ...

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen mixed with kerosene, from launch facilities that are still functional and no less remote today in Tyuratam ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.

Laika was a Russian dog who was sent on a one-way trip into space and has become a symbol for the use of animals in ...

The U.S. space industry is having a “Sputnik moment, one launch at a time,” with each satellite or spacecraft launched by the Chinese government, a top industry executive said Tuesday at the Space ...

Established in 1958, NASA was formed in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, and with it, the "Space Race." While the fervor of the race ...

A design studio's proposal for a new collectible set seeks to "pin" down the pivotal probes from space exploration history. Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites ...