The IGY, they decided, would be celebrated in 1957.As part of the IGY, the Soviet Union vowed that it would launch an ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said his country is ready to play a constructive part in settling the Russia-Ukraine ...

The U.S. space industry is having a “Sputnik moment, one launch at a time,” with each satellite or spacecraft launched by the Chinese government, a top industry executive said Tuesday at the Space ...

The Fall of Baghdad occurred on April 9, 2003, when US forces captured Iraq’s capital, marking a significant turning point in ...

Russia, among other autocratic states, is surely thrilled by the president’s decision to close Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Martí, and Radio Free Asia.

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

Top Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev was upbeat as he briefed reporters in Washington after his initial White House meeting.

Voice of America was a powerful soft power tool for decades. Trump’s rejection of soft power could also allow China, in ...

The shock of Sputnik, and the resultant commitment to ... the U.S. may be renewing Cold War-era fears over who controls the heavens—and thus the world. Is China preparing for war in outer ...

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin ... The Prague-based station, founded by the United States during the Cold War to counter ...

Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has adopted a heavy-handed approach to cutting any perceived wasteful spending in the US gov ...