The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry.

Embark on a journey to the heart of Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the remnants of the Soviet Union's Buran space ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

Blue Origin's all-female 11-minute flight on April 14 reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making ...

Even outer space isn’t safe from the pronoun police.

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.

The Soviet Union was eager to have its cosmonaut in space first. Their choice for the ... The launch of a spacecraft is a risky operation as the shuttle and the launch pad are subjected to extreme ...

Earlier this week, journalist, aviation businesswoman, philanthropist and children’s book author Lauren Sánchez took a little joyride to space in a rocket owned by her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, and his ...

Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez and other celebrities boarding Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight feels like training for ...