One day in late 1959 or 1960 -- dates aren't totally clear in declassified documents -- a crack team of four CIA agents worked through the night in stocking feet taking apart a kidnapped Soviet Lunik without...

In 1957, a Soviet street dog named Laika launched into space aboard Sputnik-2 and became the first animal to orbit the Earth. This is her story.

A pair of recent reports point to growing space conflicts, but the efforts to prevent them are stagnant or out of step. Ramin Skibba is an astrophysicist turned science writer and freelance journalist...