NASA reflects on 50th anniversary of the satellite that started the space race. Oct. 3, 2007 — -- It started with a simple beep on Oct. 4, 1957. But it was a beep heard around the world. When the ...

A Soviet technician works on Sputnik 1 before its launch in 1957. In October 1957, amateur radio operators monitored the first signal from a spacefaring civilization — and it was us. Sputnik 1, the ...

This is the eighth in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until July 20, exploring the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Moon landing. You can check out 50 Days to the Moon ...

The launch of Sputnik 1 remains vivid for UCI researcher Mike Berns 50 years after Soviet scientists shocked the world by orbiting a tiny satellite. It weighed less than 200 pounds and looked like a ...

It weighed less than 200 pounds and looked like a lead bowling ball. But little Sputnik 1 caused a sensation 50 years ago this week when it began to orbit Earth, producing a strange beep that people ...

On this day in economic and financial history... An "artificial moon" twinkled in the sky above the earth for the first time on Oct. 4, 1957. The Russian satellite Sputnik 1 entered orbit, announcing ...

MISSION MOON: Nearly 50 years have passed since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Our special Apollo 50 anniversary coverage explores how the country came ...

The Sputnik 8K71PS rocket streaks across the sky over Montreal on its way to deliver Sputnik 1 into orbit. Scientists from the California Institute of Technology track Sputnik 1 from a mobile van.

Earlier this month, President Joe Biden gave the order to shoot down a balloon, termed a “weather balloon” by Chinese officials. Off the South Carolina coast, two F-22 fighter jets from Langley Air ...

Fiftyyears ago today, the world changed forever. What began as a science experiment,quickly evolved into a political competition, and then drove humankind as faras the Moon in less than 12 years. Of ...