Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the USSR crumbled almost overnight. This video dives into the real reasons: a ...

This will be no ordinary space junk fall. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth ...

In 1950, a 22-year-old émigré with an unpronounceable name living in a frigid Canadian city wrote a master’s thesis that predicted the fall of the Soviet Union — and helped to set in motion the ...

On March 31, 1972, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft as part of a series of unmanned missions to Venus known as the Venera program. But the spacecraft never made it to Venus. Instead, the capsule ...

May 2 (UPI) --A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land. The Kosmos 482 mission launched ...

Last Tuesday, Professor Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania spoke about the historical Soviet dissident ...