On this day in 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft made history with a close flyby of Venus, marking a major milestone in the early years of space exploration. The mission became America’s first ...

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

Can India overcome years of delays to finally send its own spacecraft astronauts into orbit? That depends on crucial launches ...

In 1975, a Soviet probe plunged through Venus’s thick, poisonous atmosphere, landed on a terrain never seen by a human eye, and lasted only 53 minutes before being overwhelmed by the heat and pressure ...

Today is Monday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2025 with 23 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, ...

On Dec. 3, 2013, a federal judge ruled that Detroit was eligible for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.

Rauschenberg belonged to a generation of artists that emerged between the twilight of Abstract Expressionism and the dawn of ...

Boney M Featuring Maizie Williams will return to Australia in April 2026 for The Final Curtain Tour, featuring all the major hits performed with a full live band.

1980 – John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City. 1991 – The leaders of Russia, ...