The green spending in Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which expanded federal spending and tax credits for ...

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ner… ...

The Sputnik 1 was the world’s first artificial satellite, designed to gather data on Earth’s upper atmosphere and test the viability of satellite communication.

Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite, launched Oct. 4, 1957. (Image credit: NASA) World Space Week 2020 will celebrate the impact of satellites on humanity from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10.

Fifty-five years ago today, the Space Race was kicked into gear by a silver basketball flying through the sky. Sputnik 1, the Soviet probe that became the first manmade object to reach space ...

If Sputnik V once looked like a vital tool for the Kremlin’s geopolitical ambition, it now looks like another victim of it.

Despite its apparent simplicity, the impact of the R-7 rocket cannot be overstated. Sputnik was the first satellite humans launched into orbit, and it stunned the world. "In being beaten so ...

Sputnik's legacy. On 8 December 1957 the International Herald Tribune newspaper ran one of the most memorable headlines in the history of space exploration. The single word “Kaputnik!” emblazoned ...

The Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 satellite took to the skies on Oct. 4, 1957, launching the space age and the Cold War space race. Here are a few fun facts you may not know about Sputnik 1 and its ...

Fifty-five years ago today, the Space Race was kicked into gear by a silver basketball flying through the sky.Sputnik 1, the Soviet probe that became the first manmade object to reach space ...

Fifty-five years ago today, the Space Race was kicked into gear by a silver basketball flying through the sky. Sputnik 1, the Soviet probe that became the first manmade object to reach space ...