I just received Offhours’ Homecoat in the mail, and not a moment too soon. I’m a bit of a hothouse flower, to put it nicely, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to submit proposals for a possible resumption of nuclear tests in ...

Less than a month after the launch of Sputnik 1, the Soviets launched Sputnik 2. The mission was readied quickly in order to ...

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 ...

A model of Sputnik, the little orb that could. Image: NASA View Slideshow The standard Sputnik story goes like this: It was the launch of this metal ball that forced the United States to elevate the ...

Nancy Ramsey is a contributor to CBSNews.com. Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite. Five hundred miles above the Earth, it traveled at a speed ...

Russia launched Sputnik, the first-ever artificial satellite at the height of Cold War in 1957, leaving behind its rival United States. The satellite was launched aboard a Soviet R-7 rocket from what ...

A murder investigation has been launched after a Russian scientist involved in developing the Sputnik Covid vaccine was found dead. Andrey Botikov was part of a team of 18 scientists who developed the ...

Although Sputnik-1 will always be remembered as a shock to Americans, it is surprising how thinly veiled the development of the first satellite in orbit really was. On April 15, 1955, the Vechernya ...