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Some of the Stalin nostalgia may be attributable to the coincidence (okay, not really a coincidence) that Stalin led the ...

On June 16, 1963, the world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet ...

On June 16, 1999, police arrested Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Ann Soliah, a member of the terrorist ...

Ever heard of the supersonic Soviet jet with the nickname the 'Booze Carrier?' Well, let's just say it has a tipsy story, as ...

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union deported 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, among them over 7,000 women, children and ...

This is the latest in the Trump administration’s $1.7 trillion effort to upgrade U.S. nuclear capabilities. #antiwar #china ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

The CIA has released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The documents reveal that Kennedy met with the CIA to share ...

Explore the remarkable story of Buran, the Soviet Union’s secret space shuttle that stunned the world with its fully ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly successful missions, but is different to other space agencies which generally ...

The chances of anyone getting clobbered by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said. Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of ...