A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton spacecraft fell out of orbit on Saturday. The European Union Space ...

A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.

The Ilyushin IL-76MD (NATO reporting name: Candid-B) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan military strategic ...

Aircraft are categorized by weight with one key function: to calculate how far behind the succeeding aircraft should follow.

“Or, at least, it would have been until recently.” Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when it was part of the Soviet Union, Mr. Kanevsky, now 74, was trained as an architect. He came to the United ...

Asian stock markets today closed mixed. China’s Shanghai Composite Index (SHCOMP) closed down -0.07%, and Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Index (NIK) closed up +1.90%. China’s Shanghai Composite Index erased ...

In 1921, the peninsula, then populated mainly by Muslim Tatars, became part of the Soviet Union. The Tatars were deported en masse by Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the end of World War Two for ...

The Antonov An-225 “Mriya” was the largest aircraft ever built—and in 2022, it was destroyed during the battle for Hostomel Airport in Ukraine. With its loss, the world lost more than just a ...

Union Pacific UNP is preparing to release its quarterly earnings on Thursday, 2025-04-24. Here's a brief overview of what investors should keep in mind before the announcement. Analysts expect ...

“She said she was lieutenant colonel in the GRU,” Perlowin, now 74, told The Times, referring to the Soviet Union’s military intelligence agency. He said she also claimed to be the daughter ...

Asian stock markets today settled mixed. China’s Shanghai Composite Index (SHCOMP) closed up +0.25%, and Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Index (NIK) closed down -0.17%. China’s Shanghai Composite Index ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...