The Kremlin dismissed the head of Russia's space agency on Thursday after a tenure of less than three years scarred by the ...

The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has been struggling recently. A lack of achievements led to the departure of its head, Yuri Borisov. Even Russian analysts now suggest that some national space ...

Renowned Russian pace engineer Vladimir Syromiatnikov believed that an enormous mirror could be used to bounce sunlight onto ...

They are planning a new space station to replace their share of the ... the Russian space program has not been the same since the fall of the Soviet Union. The decline dates back to the 1966 ...

The year is 1985. The unmanned Soviet space station Salyut 7, which is in low Earth orbit, suddenly stops responding to commands from the Control Center. If the space station - the pride of Soviet ...

From the streets of Moscow to the stars: Laika, the soviet space dog, pioneered a voyage into space ... [+] that was both groundbreaking and heartbreaking. On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union ...