Russia was once the world leader in space exploration, but its space program has suffered a string of costly and embarrassing mishaps over the past year. NASA says Russia is still a trustworthy ...

There was a time when Russia and the United States were in a highly competitive race to the moon. But the 1960s came and went, with America emerging as the pioneer of space travel. The U.S. is still ...

Russia has unveiled plans for the 2036 launch of its ambitious Venera-D mission to Venus. This mission, consisting of a lander, balloon, and orbiter, marks a bold return to one of the most hostile ...

A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...

On March 18, 1965, the Soviet spacecraft Voshkod-2 launched with two cosmonauts on board, Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev.

Russia's ambitious plans for the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) that was supposed to act as a beacon of Russian technological developments and the new pinnacle manned station in orbit, isn't going to ...

For several years now, in discussing plans for its human spaceflight program beyond the International Space Station, Russian officials would proudly bring up the Russian Orbital Station, or ROS. The ...

The days are numbered for the International Space Station as NASA contracted SpaceX to deorbit the 495-ton structure after 2030. However, parts of the station won't be going on the one-way trip to the ...

How many customers does the Russian space program actually have? They've pissed off nearly everyone in the world that's not already indebted to the Kremlin for military hardware either because of the ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is due to retire soon, plunging into the South Pacific Ocean after being dragged down through Earth’s atmosphere. But perhaps not all of the space station will be ...