When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning ...

Decades after the end of the space race, an American rocket took off from Cape Canaveral. This was a routine launch to send a communications satellite into orbit, but the situation was an historic ...

As a century falls since the birth of the late Soviet space pioneer, Sergei Korolyov, BBC News looks at the stark contrast between a life spent in the mines of the Gulag or in secrecy, and his ...

MOSCOW — His work and even his name were once top Soviet secrets. It wasn’t until after his death that Sergei Korolyov became known to the world as the man who led the team that put the world’s first ...

Has Vladimir Putin just crowned a new spy chief? It certainly seems that way. On Thursday, Putin’s chief spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Sergei Korolyov has been appointed as a deputy director ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The launch of Sputnik 60 years ago opened the space era and became a major triumph for the Soviet Union, showcasing its military might and technological prowess. It also stunned the rest ...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has invited American businessman, founder of the space company SpaceX Elon Musk to visit the Serhiy Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics, located in Zhytomyr. "Today ...

ST.PETERSBURG -- A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has arrested a well-known documentary filmmaker, Vsevolod Korolyov, for allegedly "disseminating fake news" about the Russian ...