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The manned orbital multi-role research facility is a joint international project. Participating countries: Belgium, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, the United States, France, Switzerland, Sweden and Japan.
Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) started a six-hour spacewalk on Friday to carry out a number of maintenance tasks, Russian Mission Control said.
Russia orbited the world's only returnable satellite dedicated to biological research in space on Friday, helping to pave the way for future interplanetary flights, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
Brown bears in the Russian region of Kamchatka, considered to be some of the world’s largest, have started coming out of hibernation, a local nature reserve reported on Friday.
A high-tech research and production hub, similar to the Silicon Valley in California, will be built in Skolkovo near Moscow.
NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting space telescope has discovered seven new planets, including two that are orbiting in the zone “between fire and ice” that could sustain life, researchers working on the project said Thursday.
The Russian government has allocated 7 billion rubles (around $230 million) from the federal budget for development programs at the Kurchatov Institute, renowned for its achievements in nuclear science, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said on Tuesday.1
Two months after a meteorite exploded over the Chelyabinsk region of Russia and slammed into the Ural mountain range, a collection of meteorite pieces gathered in the aftermath is on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a Canadian telecommunications satellite Anik-G1 blasted off on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos reported.
A Russian cargo spacecraft undocked on Monday from the International Space Station (ISS) to perform a series of scientific experiments in space before splashing in the Pacific on April 21, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have created a “nanosponge” that can remove dangerous toxins, including those produced by drug resistant staphylococcus, E. coli, venomous snakes and bees, from the bloodstream, the US news website Science Daily reported Sunday.
A group of Russian space followers think they have spotted the remnants of a Soviet spacecraft that made the first successful soft landing on Mars more than 40 years ago in an image from 2007 taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Russia will develop new technology including huge new rockets for manned flights to the Moon and Mars by 2030, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
Planned space adventures over the next few decades for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) read like a science fiction thriller with a touch of the wild west thrown in, with plans to journey farther and faster than anyone from Earth has gone before.
Cosmonauts who completed their mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-March devoted a record 33 percent of their work time to conducting scientific experiments, a space official said on Thursday.
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have released what they call an “unusually good picture” of a star 3,300 light years from Earth taken by the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, that is putting on a show of color and light as it dies.
Maybe Facebook doesn’t know everything. A new tool lets anyone using Google’s Chrome internet browser embed secret messages in photos uploaded to the sprawling social network, keeping them out of reach of outsiders, including governments and Facebook itself.