Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands raises the stakes in critical mineral competition, with the United States at risk of falling behind. In February, the Cook Islands announced a key ...

The recent release of a new AI model triggered a tech stock tumble. Did this “Sputnik moment” set off an AI tech race, and ...

The Launch Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan ...

Instead of looking at comparisons to past breakthroughs like Sputnik, let’s look at what DeepSeek tells us about where AI is ...

Both nations endeavored to perfect their satellites and launch first, and on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into ...

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...

The Swedish musician known as Sputnik makes lo-fi noise-pop under the name Weaterday, and they’ve become a world-of-mouth ...

Frank Cottrell Boyce's book Sputnik's Guide To Life on Earth asks a big question - can a dog from outer space save the world? Frank visited Authors Live to read from the book and talk about writing.