Raised on the southern coast of China in Zhanjiang, Liang was a straight-A student with an aptitude for math. At 17, he enrolled at Zhejiang University, majoring in electronics and communication ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

In that near decade long war, the Soviet Union suffered 75,000 casualties — 20,000 dead and 55,000 wounded. Mr. Putin’s war, not yet three years old, has racked up 16 ... “before” and “after” ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

For the first time in decades, he’d revisited his old bedroom. It faces a railway ... Once, when I met Foster there, we sat at a round table he often uses at one end of a very long, double ...

Space storms, obviously, are as old — or older — than the Earth itself ... which U.S. military authorities briefly feared might be a precursor to a Soviet nuclear attack.

Launched in utter secrecy, Parcae’s orbital triads tracked Soviet warships in real-time, offering a vital edge at the height of the Cold War.

he begins his column, referring to the first artificial Earth satellite, launched in 1957 ... reminded me of the way photographs … in the old Soviet Union would be altered to erase officials ...