In the 1970s, NASA partnered with the U.S. Postal Service on an overlooked project that helped shape modern EV development.

Today’s Boston Globe traces the history of many of the 35 Iranian students who in 1975 came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for training as nuclear scientists — at a time when the U.S.

The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission when it launched in March 1972. The mission included a lander destined for Venus. The spacecraft never made it out of Earth ...