RUSSIAN COSMONAUT

A persistent conspiracy theory in the US claims the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked, suggesting NASA staged photos and videos. Russian scientist Yury Borisov, head of Roscosmos, confirmed the authenticity of lunar soil samples provided by the ...

Russia aims to establish the core of its new orbital space station by 2030, according to its space agency, Roscosmos. The agency's head, Yuri Borisov, approved the timeline, which includes launching an initial scientific and energy module in 2027 an...

A defunct Russian Earth observation satellite, the RESURS-P1, has fragmented into over 100 pieces of space debris. This event necessitated astronauts aboard the International Space Station to seek shelter for approximately one hour. The incident con...

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko became the first person to spend 1,000 days in space. He achieved the milestone on Tuesday during his fifth journey to the International Space Station since 2008. he surpassed the previous record of 878 days, 11 hour...

Marina Vasilevskaya, Belarus' first female cosmonaut, successfully launched to the International Space Station from Baikonur in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The mission overcame delays, with the ISS facing coolant leaks and uncertai...

The SpaceX Crew Dragon named Endeavour is to carry the four atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has set a new world record for the most cumulative time spent in space, surpassing Gennady Padalka. Kononenko has now spent over 878 days and 12 hours in space. He has made five journeys to the International Space St...

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, along with two Russian cosmonauts, has returned to Earth after a record-breaking 371-day mission, surpassing the previous US record by over two weeks. Rubio's journey was made more challenging when their original spacecra...

Frank Rubio, along with his Russian cosmonaut crewmates Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, concluded their mission with a parachute-assisted landing in a remote area of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 7:17 a.m. Eastern time.

​​Russia President Vladimir Putin is looking to strengthen space cooperation with China after ties with the West broke down following the start of Moscow's offensive in Ukraine last year. On Wednesday, Putin hosted the reclusive leader of North Kore...

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said Artemyev didn't see an employee of the Star City cosmonaut training center who was crossing the road in the dark late Monday. It said in a statement Tuesday that Artemyev immediately provided first aid...

After the successful liftoff of a four-person crew from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, U.S. and Russian space officials told reporters they intended to continue cooperating in space despite tensions over Russia's war in Ukraine. As part of the l...

The four-member crew should reach the International Space Station (ISS) about 29 hours later on Thursday evening to begin a 150-day science mission aboard the orbital laboratory some 250 miles (420 km) above Earth. The mission, designated Crew-5, ma...

Anna Kikina, the only female cosmonaut in service, is part of the Crew-5 mission, which also includes one Japanese and two American astronauts. Blast-off is set for noon from the Kennedy Space Center, with the weather forecast so far promising.

Three cosmonauts from Russia have safely returned from their trip to the International Space Station. Expedition 67 cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, returned home.

Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov handed over command of the International Space Station early Tuesday to American astronaut Thomas Marshburn. Shkaplerov spoke highly of the continued cooperative efforts aboard the ISS despite current turmoil on ea...

​​He was barely 27 years old when he made this observation. His eyes not only saw what was before him, but also experienced the expansiveness of being human.

Launched in 1998, the research platform orbiting some 250 miles (400 km) above Earth has been continuously occupied since November 2000 while operated by a U.S.-Russian-led partnership including Canada, Japan and 11 European countries.

The men were the first new arrivals on the space station since the start of Ukraine crisis.