The answer lies in history. On April 12, 1961, Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into space. He flew aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in ...

Gagarin's success made him an international hero and a symbol of the Soviet Union's achievements in space exploration.

India's astronauts, or Gaganyatris, for the H1 and H2 missions were selected in February 2024. They are Prasanth Balakrishnan ...

The first Artemis mission lasted 25 days and saw the launch of an uncrewed spacecraft in November 2022. It saw a spacecraft ...

With ally SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars while testing tech ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a freelance science journalist. Her beats ...

The new book "Gemini and Mercury Remastered" features iconic images from the earliest days of human space exploration ...