Ultimately, the laser pistol’s practicality was limited by its low power, the fragility of space environments, and the ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind closed doors. A look back at the Politburo – an opaque, feared body that ran an ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

Americans don't like talking about it, but the Soviet Union produced a golden age of science If not for the scientists working for the Russia-led Soviet Union, America would be much worse off today ...

Retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams fought in one of the most incredible battles in aviation history and lived to tell the tale ...

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...