The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year. In the heated frenzy of ...

This video explains why the Soviet Union—once a nuclear superpower ruling nearly 300 million people—collapsed so suddenly in 1991. It traces the arc from post-WWII dominance and the Cold War standoffs ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed one of its most secretive and terrifying weapons—the RT-23 Molodets. This intercontinental ballistic missile system was hidden inside specially designed ...

Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support deep space missions and METI—the attempt to message extraterrestrial ...

When Del Norte High senior Tanay Shah was 6 years old, he went to India with his parents to visit relatives. An encounter during that trip set the now 17-year-old on a mission to give children ...

When Harry Helling, who is celebrating his 10th year as executive director of La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium, first set foot on the grounds more than 30 years ago, it was a very different place. Helling ...

While the world holds its breath to see if the US tech industry can bring about human-level artificial intelligence — and therefore completely rewrite the social contract and economy — experts are ...

Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu urged Canada Post on Monday to quickly table a new offer to the union of striking postal workers. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) took to the picket lines ...

What if there were a technology that could help to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, air pollution and environmental degradation, while improving health, reducing social inequality and boosting ...

Mascoutah-based Better Newspapers Inc. has sold 15 newspapers in southeast Missouri and southern Illinois to Paxton Media Group, it was announced earlier this month. In Illinois, the following eight ...

Chess pieces are assembled on a board at the Albany Chess Center on Sept. 19 in Colonie. Founder John Oyeyemi Fawole and his team operate the center seven days a week and run programming not just at ...