On March 6, 1986, the Soviet Union's Vega 1 spacecraft flew by Halley's Comet. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Vega 1 was the first of five missions to fly by Halley's Comet in the ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched military space stations under the Almaz program, some even armed with a cannon designed to defend against hostile spacecraft. In 1975, one of ...

While the U.S. Olympic men's hockey team was indeed treated to burgers for lunch during a White House visit, a team member said the burgers weren't provided by McDonald's. The video showed the team ...

Team USA hockey star Jack Eichel confirmed the Olympic gold medalists ate special White House burgers with branded buns, not ...

Neil Sedaka, the buoyantly up-tempo singer, pianist and songwriter who sidestepped a promising classical career in the 1950s ...

February 20 marked the birth centenary of Zinaida Portnova, one of the youngest recipients of the Soviet Union’s highest wartime honour. Remembered for her role in the anti-Nazi underground in ...

From the first taste of the preshow environment for “Mother Russia” — a flood of red lights, sparkly tinsel garlands and ...

Particle physics is using ever more interdisciplinary means to seek ever more exotic phenomena, Robert P Crease finds, but ...

Lauren Yee’s boisterous play “Mother Russia,” about the origins of the contemporary oligarchy, has its roots in her San ...

Entire towns, factories, hospitals, and amusement parks have been left to decay across the world, some due to economic collapse, while others are suffering the aftereffects of natural disaster, war, ...

Coming off a 2024 world premiere in Seattle, Lauren Yee's new comedy skewers both capitalists and communists with equal zeal.

Until then, bask in the victory of the hockey team. While not quite a “miracle on ice” redux, the result was a miracle in ...