On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within minutes, tsunami warnings were issued in Russia, much of Asia and across the ...

Long before modern Mars missions, the Soviet Union was pursuing one of the most ambitious goals of the Space Race.

The most persistent myth about Apollo is that the United States faked the Moon landing in a studio and somehow fooled the entire planet. The more closely I look at the historical record, the clearer a ...

After months of meticulous planning, the moment of reckoning was approaching quickly, and Nick Polano was getting nervous. Worried about being recognized by the wrong people — and the Portland, Ore., ...

History Channel tells the story of two flawed secret weapons programs of the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union boasted of the superiority of its weapons. A look at the inner workings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the late 1960s, a top-secret Soviet program to sneak nuclear weapons around U.S. early warning radars was mistaken for a ...

In contemporary times, when you mention intelligence gathering, the first thoughts that likely come to mind are spy satellites, drones, and AI-backed computers. However, nearly 60 years ago, during ...

Aldrich Ames, one of the CIA's most notorious turncoats, died in federal prison Monday at 84. Ames had been serving life without parole since 1994, when he was convicted of espionage for selling ...