A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Buyanova was born in Ukraine but is a citizen of Russia, where she has lived and worked for three decades. Her lawyer Oscar ...

For the first time, a group of U.S. researchers has concluded that China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor to ...

That proximity has irked China, North Korea’s main backer. Chinese officials fear that Russia’s influence over the insular ...

Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

In the late 1950s, Soviet and American scientists and engineers raced to develop long-range ballistic missiles with payloads ...

Imagine strolling down the streets on a peaceful night in Honolulu and breathing in the fresh salt sea air. Feel the tiny detonation of air pressure as an orange glow lights up the cloud cover far ...

China launched its first recoverable satellite in 1975, becoming the third nation, after the United States and the former Soviet Union, to have such a spacecraft. The country has launched nearly 30 ...

This series, Space in Focus, explores key space trends, challenges, and policy issues that will confront the next administration as well as offers recommendations for how to navigate them. We are so ...

Satellite imagery reveals the development of a sophisticated counter-stealth radar system and a suspected launching point for an anti-ship missile battery. Picture: Maxar Technologies/Chatham ...