After Apollo 11 shifted the space race, Soviet leaders feared the U.S. Shuttle could become a space bomber and rushed to build a counterpart. This story traces how public documents, covert ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

The increasing number of commercial space launches and the upward trend in upmass serve as unmistakable signs of space ...

A launch pad at Russia’s main space complex was damaged during Thursday’s launch of a mission carrying two Russians and an American to the International Space Station, Moscow’s space agency announced.

A Soyuz rocket launched on Thursday carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, as well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams, for an eight-month mission to the ...