In May 1960 an American U-2 spy plane flew over Russian missile sites. The US thought it was beyond the reach of Soviet air ...

In about a week or so, a three foot (one meter) module from the failed Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 will be reentering ...

From industrial juggernaut to economic disaster, the Soviet Union’s economy tells the dramatic story of a global superpower ...

As the rising powers of German and Japan sought to emulate established colonial titans, the world was consumed by war.

DECLASSIFIED Soviet Union documents claim that Adolf Hitler was shot dead by an SS officer after the Nazi leader ordered his ...

Pobeda festival commemorates Soviet victory in Second World War, organized by Russian consulate with support from Indian ...

This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth ...

The spacecraft was designed to survive falling through Venus's atmosphere. 53 years after launch, it's coming back.

The United States should not be "fooled" by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko into offering concessions following the ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...