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

ON OCTOBER 9TH the Swedish Academy anointed Laszlo Krasznahorkai the newest Nobel laureate in literature, saluting the Hungarian writer’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of ...

Like many of you, no doubt, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of my favourite sci-fi writers. So I am really excited about a collection out this month that brings together the maps she would draw when starting ...

As humanity’s curiosity about space and life on the Moon grew, so did the desire to conquer new frontiers. Among those who dreamed of reaching the stars, the Soviet Union made significant strides. In ...

Russia Developing Starlink Rival at 'Rapid Pace,' Space Chief Says MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will soon have a rival to Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink, as it tries to shift away from ...

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). Nowadays, she mostly writes Fortnite and ...

The oldest known trout in the Great Lakes was found, and she has a name: Mary Catherine. Or “Grandma Mary Catherine” for the young’uns. Grandma Mary Catherine was collected for research purposes in ...

The famed Wright brothers made history in December 1903 with their inaugural flight at Kitty Hawk. Just over six decades later, our understanding of flight advanced so far that Yuri Gagarin became the ...

Display case featuring both real-life and creative space-related artifacts, including board games, video game paraphernalia, and President Lyndon B. Johnson’s NASA hard hat. The “Futures in Space” ...

MOSCOW, April 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s ...

The Baikonur rocket and missile site in the middle of Kazakhstan is an area of some 90 kms in diameter which is leased to Russia until 2050. At its heart is the spaceport, and central to the spaceport ...

Yuri Gagarin is celebrated as the first human in space - but history written during the Cold War may not tell the full story. This video digs into the facts, the rumors, and what the Soviet Union may ...