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 ...

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

Moscow has replaced a cosmonaut assigned to an upcoming SpaceX mission after he allegedly took photos of restricted materials at the company's training facility in California, according to Russian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOSCOW, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Russia's space agency said on Tuesday that work was underway to repair a damaged launch pad at the ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has set his ambitions on reaching Venus in ambitious plans for Russia's space programme ...

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 ...

Kazakhstan’s Dier-5 satellite launch with China highlights a pragmatic pivot toward faster and more reliable space partners. Persistent delays in Russia’s Soyuz-5 rocket threaten the long-standing ...

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 ...

Four decades after crushing the Soviet space program, however, the urgency reflected in the race to the moon has dissipated. Now, NASA is reduced to timidly paying Russia about $300 million annually ...

Russia has unveiled plans for the 2036 launch of its ambitious Venera-D mission to Venus. This mission, consisting of a ...

February 10, 2026: As of 2026 China has over 500 satellites in orbit. Russia has less than 200, and s0me 0f those may be defective. In terms of military satellites, Russia has 110, China 157 and the ...