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 ...

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

including heat-resistant alloys and ceramic tiles—technologies that foreshadowed those used on later spacecraft like the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle. Its propulsion in orbit relied on ...

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent twice as much time in space than his team had planned after his country stopped ...

In January 1986, the crew of the Challenger space shuttle took off from the launch ... Even Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet Union's national hero, received recognition despite the suspicious ...

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.