With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore returning to Earth on Tuesday after nine months in space, ...

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...

On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would ...

Blue Origin's next spaceflight is set to make history and will include celebrities such as Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King.

NASA's Artemis 2 crew wants your help designing the plush toy that will fly with them around the moon.

Tereshkova, now 87, was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first woman in space during her solo Vostok 6 mission on 16 June 1963. According to the press release, Sánchez “brought the mission ...

the Vostok Brigade, and the Akhmat special forces unit. All of them volunteered to take part, fully aware that this might be a one-way mission. "Russian assault troops spent several days preparing for ...

In North Korea, Russian tourists are invited to lay flowers at a monument to Soviet soldiers who died fighting to liberate ...

Elisabeta Darie discusses how commercial spaceflight could change the atmosphere around accessibility ...

The last time a spaceflight had only females on board was the solo flight by Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963 on the Vostok 6 mission.

According to Russian military bloggers, units from the Veterans Brigade, “Akhmat” group, 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment, 11th ...

The Russian Cultural Centre in Cairo celebrated International Women’s Day with an event that included a photo exhibition and ...