On a crisp October evening in 1957, the horizon did not just hold the setting sun; it held the beginning of a brand-new era ...

On Oct. 4th, 1957, at 10:29 PM Moscow time, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1 into space on a repurposed R-7 rocket. The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik was about 22 inches ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com]( ...

Sputnik V, the Covid-19 developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute, was the early rising star of Covid-19 vaccines. Now it is mired in controversy arising from the institute’s failure ...

One morning last August, Vladimir Putin, isolated at his Presidential residence in the forest outside Moscow, held a videoconference with his Cabinet. The ministers’ faces, stern yet deferential, ...

That was how NBC radio introduced the signal from the first satellite in space, on October 4, 1957. But it wasn’t a triumph of American science: The sound came from the Soviet Union’s Sputnik, a piece ...

When Sputnik became the first manmade satellite to enter space on Oct. 4, 1957, its alien beeping shocked America. Its signal stopped after just three weeks, and three months later sky gazers could no ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Sputnik Light vaccine shows 70% effectiveness against the Delta variant of COVID-19 three months after injection and the one-shot product is likely to become the country's ...