At the height of the Space Race, CIA agents carried out a daring covert operation in Mexico City to secretly inspect a Soviet Luna spacecraft prototype. The risky overnight heist revealed valuable ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has set his ambitions on reaching Venus in ambitious plans for Russia's space programme ...

Research team cites abundant mare basalts, river-like valleys formed from surface lava flows and deposits of volcanic materials Scientists in China and Germany have identified four possible landing ...

While NASA's Apollo 11 mission is still remembered today for putting a man on the Moon in 1969, the Soviet Union put humanity's first uncrewed spacecraft on lunar soil three years earlier. A ...

Russia plans to launch the Venera-D mission to Venus in 2036, continuing the Soviet Union's legacy of exploring there in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Regarding “The Cold War’s Last Man Standing” (Weekend Interview, Feb. 14): Tunku Varadarajan says that Polish hero Lech Walesa may be the last man standing among those leaders who caused the demise of ...

BEIJING (AP) — People are marking the Lunar New Year on Tuesday with prayers, fireworks and festivities. The activities ushered in the Year of the Horse, one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, ...

Vendors dished out bánh mì and poured bubble tea in the Seaport District on Sunday as thousands ushered in the Year of the Horse at Tet in Boston, the annual festival that brings together the local ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s consumer regulatory authority is investigating nine sanitary pad suppliers after a local university study detected potentially harmful chemicals in some menstrual ...

There’s always someone hogging the limelight. And in the world of aviation history, this often means that superb aircraft are forced to play second fiddle to more famous designs. Here are 10 ...