The Soviet Venera probes were a series of spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between the 1960s and 1980s to explore Venus, making them the first missions to successfully reach and study another ...

The Soviet space program post-1966 is somewhat of a cruel joke. It's as if the tragic, untimely death of Sergei Korolev in 1966 doomed the Soviet Space Program to endless failure from the N1 to the ...

From Fukushima to the darkest corners of the ocean, robots built for extreme environments and an appetite for discovery continue to enlighten our understanding of places too dangerous to tread. Those ...

Russia is returning to large-scale research in outer space, with a focus on solar system exploration. According to Roscosmos (the Russian Federal Space Agency) head Vladimir Popovkin, Russia is ...