YURI GAGARIN, the first human to travel into outer space, was born on March 9 1934, so let’s celebrate his birthday by ...

The first astronauts preparing to fly to the moon in more than 50 years want your help identifying their "moon mascot." ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Sen aims to use the story-telling power of video to inspire, empowering everyone to witness planetary change and humanity's exploration of space.

Russia has prided itself as a leading power in space since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space in 1961. But under Borisov's mandate, an uncrewed Luna-25 spacecraft ...

Actor Brittany Snow turns 39 and Olympic gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee turns 21, among the famous birthdays for March 9.

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...

The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of space exploration. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to the stars. Rockets, astronauts, and satellites filled the headlines. That obsession ...

Seeing Earth from space has largely been the preserve of a few hundred astronauts — around 700 humans have seen Earth from space in the six decades since Yuri Gagarin's historic first human ...

Borisov had headed Roscosmos since July 2022 in a tenure marked by the failure of a Russian moon mission and was relieved of his post earlier this month. A presidential decree announced his ...