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Russia, NASA to Meet This Month to Discuss Collaboration on Nuclear-Powered...

NASA's Prometheus Nuclear-Powered, Ion-Propelled Spacecraft NASA's proposed Prometheus spacecraft would've had a nuclear engine in the nose that powered ion jets in the rear to propel the...

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Russian Space Telescope Lifts Off, Will Be Biggest Telescope Ever

RadioAstron Flight Model Astro Space Center, Russian Academy of Science A new Russian space telescope that will work in concert with radio telescopes on the ground launched earlier today, capping an...

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Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars is Stuck in Earth Orbit After Engines...

Phobos-Grunt and Upper Stage A model of the Phobos-Grunt probe with its upper state MKonair on Flickr A day after the successful launch of the Phobos-Grunt probe from Baikonur Cosmodrome in...

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Phobos-Grunt, Still Stuck in Orbit, Could Burn Up in the Atmosphere in January

Phobos-Grunt and Upper Stage A model of the Phobos-Grunt probe with its upper state MKonair on Flickr It's now been almost a week since the launch of Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and still...

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Lost Mars Probe Briefly Phones Home, But the Window to Save the Phobos-Grunt...

The Phobos-Grunt That Wasn't A Roscosmos rendering of Phobos-Grunt approaching Mars and its moon Phobos. Roscosmos Finally, Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft has called home. The European Space Agency...

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President Medvedev Suggests Punishing Those Responsible for Phobos-Grunt Debacle

The Phobos-Grunt That Wasn't A Roscosmos rendering of Phobos-Grunt approaching Mars and its moon Phobos. Roscosmos Most of the sentiment surrounding Russia's failed Mars-bound Phobos-Grunt has been a...

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Russian Space Authorities Determine Cause of Failed Mars Probe: America

Phobos-Grunt in Space Thierry Legault The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos--you know, the one that hasn't enjoyed a lot of success lately--isn't sure exactly why Russia's doomed Phobos-Grunt...

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Russian Space Chief: 'We’re Talking About Establishing Permanent Bases' On...

Destination: the Moon Bob Familiar via WikimediaYesterday, the heads of the space agencies for Europe, Canada, Russia, India, and Japan met in Washington D.C. (without NASA, which had all hands on...

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Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s

Moon Mission Wikimedia Commons Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2015, according to agency head Vladimir Popovkin. The rocket carrying the...

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Russia's 'Space Ark' Returns All Of Its Lizards And Half Its Mice Safely To...

A Bion-M1 capsule launches aboard a Soyuz rocket DLR photo via WikimediaLess than half of the rodents, lizards, fish, and other small animals that were lofted skyward last month made it back alive,...

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Watch Live As 3 Astronauts Rocket Toward The ISS

 Live streaming video by Ustream  A Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:58 p.m. Eastern time...

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Russian Space Telescope Lifts Off, Will Be Biggest Telescope Ever

A new Russian space telescope that will work in concert with radio telescopes on the ground launched earlier today, capping an effort that germinated during the Cold War. It…

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Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars is Stuck in Earth Orbit After Engines...

A day after the successful launch of the Phobos-Grunt probe from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian mission handlers are already scrambling to save their spacecraft…

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Phobos-Grunt, Still Stuck in Orbit, Could Burn Up in the Atmosphere in January

It's now been almost a week since the launch of Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and still mission handlers have received no communication from the interplanetary probe…

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Lost Mars Probe Briefly Phones Home, But the Window to Save the Phobos-Grunt...

Finally, Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft has called home. The European Space Agency has confirmed that Roscosmos' marooned spacecraft--stuck in Earth orbit after a failed…

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President Medvedev Suggests Punishing Those Responsible for Phobos-Grunt Debacle

Most of the sentiment surrounding Russia's failed Mars-bound Phobos-Grunt has been a mix of guarded hopefulness that Roscosmos will recover the mission--currently stalled in…

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Russian Space Authorities Determine Cause of Failed Mars Probe: America

The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos--you know, the one that hasn't enjoyed a lot of success lately--isn't sure exactly why Russia's doomed Phobos-Grunt mission failed…

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Russian Space Chief: 'We’re Talking About Establishing Permanent Bases' On...

Yesterday, the heads of the space agencies for Europe, Canada, Russia, India, and Japan met in Washington D.C. (without NASA, which had all hands on deck for the SpaceX…

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Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s

Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2015, according to agency head Vladimir Popovkin. The rocket carrying the…

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Russia's 'Space Ark' Returns All Of Its Lizards And Half Its Mice Safely To...

Less than half of the rodents, lizards, fish, and other small animals that were lofted skyward last month made it back alive, but nonetheless Russian researchers are…

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