On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray ...

November 3 has long been a day marked by significant events that have shaped the course of history around the world.Starting with a global milestone, o ...

Flashes of light seen in the sky in old astronomical photographs may reveal the presence of reflective, satellite-like ...

""The National Defense Education Act broke a logjam of opposition to federal aid to elementary and secondary education in 1958. Many believe that the launch of the Soviet's Sputnik satellite enabled ...

One of the most important satellite launches of all time was that of Sputnik. When the Soviet satellite became the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth on October 4, 1957, space must have seemed ...

Two new papers delve into mysterious lights and objects that were observed in the sky years before the first satellite ...

Mysterious “star-like” flashes of light spotted in photographs of sky surveys in the 1950s have long been associated with the ...

Astronomical images from the pre-Sputnik era contain points of light that appear only once. Clues to an artificial origin ...

As the Soviet Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth, Americans became fearful that we were falling behind technologically. The response was a massive prioritization of science, technology, engineering, ...

As the Soviet Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth, Americans became fearful that we were falling behind technologically. The response was a massive prioritization of science, technology, engineering, ...