The limited technology and research at the time prevented humans from taking the journey to space. Thus, animals were chosen ...

Here is the heartbreaking story of Laika, the soviet dog who became the first animal to orbit the Earth in 1957.

On Veterans Day, we take time to remember some of the most legendary celebrities who served in the US Armed Forces.

As he prepares to bring the magic of space exploration to UK audiences, the veteran astronaut speaks about dealing with fear, ...

Jill Downs, retired teacher, writer and creative artist. Much loved wife, mother and grandmother, passed away at home on 27 ...

Even at the height of the Apollo program, after Aldrin and Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar ... The moon is also a 4.5-billion-year-old death trap for humans and must not be trifled with ...

Are you not entertained? Films set in Ancient Rome deliver spectacle, silliness – and lots of men in leather skirts. These ...

Ryan Anderson each died after a battle with post-traumatic stress disorder ... and it’s about remembering those who served ...

As the story goes, Vampira was spurned by Dean, who soon after died in a car crash ... Chiswick’s radio programmer Clive Banks got producer Roger Armstrong to tone down the somewhat blasphemous—and ...

Today in Music History for Nov. 12: ...

Roy Haynes, revered as one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time who helped to shape the bebop era and played with ...

In 1973, while the world watched the Apollo missions end, something extraordinary happened in the Amazon jungle. A rocket ...