A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Soviet Venus lander is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere this month, possibly crashing intact after 53 years in orbit, ...

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 ...

The Soviet Union and subsequent Russian Federation built some of the fastest jets to ever take to the air and not all of them ...

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

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

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...