Launched in 1972, it malfunctioned and remained in orbit for 53 years. After days of speculation, Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashed into Earth on Saturday (May 10), Russia's space agency ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi ... (Reporting by Dmitry Antonov in Moscow and Guy Faulconbridge in London,; Additional reporting ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in Earth orbit for decades — is slated to fall from the sky Friday night or early ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in ... A parade of bile and lies." (Reporting by Dmitry Antonov in Moscow and Guy Faulconbridge in ...

One plane for another: a similar model, the Antonov An-225 Mriya—which was Ukrainian-owned and the largest aircraft in the world—was destroyed at Hostomel Airport shortly after the war began.

Russia has marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with a parade attended by China's Xi Jinping amid tight security to guard against Ukrainian ...