At the height of the Space Race, two Italian amateur radio enthusiasts claimed to have captured secret audio of cosmonauts, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...

In the Barents Sea, HMS Conqueror carried out a covert mission planned with U.S. cooperation to steal a Soviet towed sonar ...

On Nov. 7, 1992, exactly 75 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, a yellow minibus with a fading “Baltic Tours” sign pulled up to the decaying docks of Klaipėda, a Lithuanian port city on the frigid ...

The investment in Biopreparat reflected a Soviet calculus that biological agents could provide asymmetrical leverage against the West. In the depths of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched a ...

Russia's whale problem -- The whales of distant seas -- A revolution in whaling -- North Pacific numbers -- War and glory in the Antarctic -- Aleksei Solyanik and the end of Area V -- The Kollektiv ...

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 ...

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., ...