In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...

Related: Sputnik: The space race's opening shot Chop Shop is basing the pins' designs on a popular collection of posters they produced in 2014 and 2015. The Historic Robotic Spacecraft Series has ...

From the very first Cold War Geiger counters that were Sputnik and Explorer-1, to the autonomous robots of Mars, asteroid missions, telescopes, and the Voyager craft now ...

chairman of the board at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), has told Sputnik Africa. During celebrations for ...

During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society sits down with host David Ariosto. The ...

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 ...

The term “space age” has become shorthand for a certain aesthetic that covers form, materials and a cutting-edge sensibility.

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 ...

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

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