Imagine being trapped in space and finding out that your country no longer exists. That is what happened to Sergei Krikalev, the last Soviet cosmonaut of the USSR. On December 26, 1991, his nation ...

The Vancouver author spoke with CBC Books about the inspiration behind his novel The Tiger and the Cosmonaut. The book is one ...

While preparing for the first human-crewed Vostok mission, 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin rose to the top of his class thanks to ...

The astronauts' return to Earth was originally scheduled for Nov. 5, but now it has been postponed indefinitely.

Icarus 2.0 will expand the tracking network globally, allowing for more detailed tracking of migration, breeding, and ...

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky completed a 6 hour and 54 minute spacewalk outside the International ...

Canine cosmonaut Laika rests comfortably inside the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 before being blasted into orbit in 1957.Credit ...

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...

This one was full of space paraphernalia, astronaut dolls, and NASA shirts. But what caught my eye were the dog plushies in ...

The ISS has cost an estimated $150 billion to build and operate, with NASA spending around $3 billion annually to keep it ...

Calls are growing for billionaire Elon Musk to come to the rescue of three stranded Chinese astronauts after their return ...

Instead, intellectual integrity should make us open to indirect evidence that comes from beyond the realm of ordinary observation. I learned that viewpoint, in fact, from someone who lived only a ...