Sixty years before pop star Katy Perry's 10-minute spaceflight, a factory worker from the Soviet Union created history, ...

"If we cut ourselves off from the Chinese research world, both countries will be the losers," UI Professor Emeritus Gary ...

The Baikonur rocket and missile site in the middle of Kazakhstan is an area of some 90 kms in diameter which is leased to ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind ...

"It is not often that such people, charged with a certain idea, appear in the human population," Putin said of Musk.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted progress on a peace settlement had already been made, claiming Russia was striving ...

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

I don’t believe in God, but I believe he can punish us,” Alexei Leonov says with a wan smile. It has been 30 years since his friend and fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a MiG crash ...