O n October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its ...

From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.

From unbelievable images captured in space to predictions of asteroids colliding with Earth, we've researched a variety of ...

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...

Sputnik 1 was the object that began the era of space exploration when it was launched from the USSR in 1957. Many people will remember the wonder of hearing the regular 'beeps' of the radio signal ...

the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into space, the Soviet Union had made headlines again with Sputnik 2, which sent the first animal ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika ... Yegorov all fly on Voskhod 1, the first mission to send multiple men into space. March 18: Voskhod 2 carries Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov into orbit.

By March 1958, puzzling data from Explorer 1 had been understood through ... of the European Space Agency's Planck satellite. The launch of Sputnik five decades ago has had profound effects.

Sputnik 1 was the object that began the era of space exploration when it was launched from the USSR in 1957. Many people will remember the wonder of hearing the regular 'beeps' of the radio signal ...