Years ago, Vladimir Kanevsky’s floral sculptures started turning up in Manhattan’s most elegant living rooms. Now his work is ...

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 ...

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.

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

The president is not the first American leader to disregard the role of morality in foreign policy, but he’s taking things ...

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

China is not the new Soviet Union. And this is not 1955. It is 2025. And the future will not follow the path of the past.

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

Russia will hold its “Intervision” music competition in September, organisers announced on Wednesday, after authorities ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...