Before actually landing on the Moon, both the U.S. and USSR were planning to use our natural satellite primarily for war.

Asteroid mining may require changes to The Outer Space Treaty and the consequences of amending it badly could be very serious...

Politicians want splashy headlines and photo ops with flag-planting moments and that's enough for them. This is exactly why they shouldn't set scientific missions.

It's been half a century since the first human slipped into orbit around our planet. And while we've done a lot in space since then, we haven't done nearly enough.

Comparing what America and the USSR did to their own citizens during the Cold War is a fool's errand. The USSR was objectively worse to its people.

Inertia applies not only to objects with mass, but to bureaucracy and large institutions that have grown out of control.

Unfortunately for those of us who'd like to remain alive and not irradiated, the ghost of Mutually Assured Destruction lives on.

Stalin wasn't the only world leader who was thinking about using the Moon as a springboard for a massive base able to strike anywhere on Earth with devastating consequences.

Does Russia really house a former Soviet doomsday weapon designed to wipe out ever major city in the West should Moscow be obliterated?

Every year, Russia celebrates the first human flight into space, but not how, or why, you might think...

Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the myth of communism leading to atheism persists.

Where are our flying cars, portable reactors, and robot butlers? Well, thank the 1980s...