Russia's Victory Day commemorations yesterday marked 80 years since the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany. More than 20 ...

After a failed soviet union mission to venus 53 years ago the spacecraft has been left in orbit around earth since the early ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos-482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it ...

Astronomers predict that the 500kg (1,100 lbs) landing module could hit the planet as early as this afternoon.

A Soviet spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus is set to fall back to Earth in the next week. The Kosmos 482 capsule was built for Venus's brutal atmosphere, so it will likely survive Earth's.

By now, the Russian euphoria that greeted improved relations with Washington this spring has diminished, but many Russian ...

As World War II fades from living memory, its place in the German collective consciousness is as complicated as ever.

The war affected every Belarusian family, and Belarus is the European country that suffered the greatest losses in World War ...

It was built to survive Venus’ extreme atmosphere, meaning some parts could survive ... over 2,500 Kosmos satellites launched by the Soviet Union, and later Russia, since 1962.

That means it could survive its unexpected trip ... was formed in the mid-1960s amid the 20th-century space race, which pitted the Soviet Union against its chief space-exploring competitor ...

The US-based Institute for the Study of War argued in a recent analysis that a victory for the far-right presidential ...