Denali, Alaska: Known as North America's tallest peak, Denali has recorded temperatures as low as -83°C at its summit.

This year, you also learnt Russia’s ships have used Cape Town as a cargo node to build its new $108-million Vostok research station in East Antarctica — part-bankrolled by the personal fortune ...

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...

In a wide-ranging interview with a Russian television station, the chief executive of Russia's main space corporation said the country is now planning to participate in the International Space ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected ... team to postpone Ukraine's admission to NATO for 20 years and to station British and European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine." ...

Georgia's Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia lost all electricity supply due to the shutdown of the only power station supplying energy to the region, Russian state news agency TASS reported on ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

The fate of Russia’s prized air and naval bases on Syrian territory hangs in the balance after the dramatic ousting of Kremlin ally President Bashar al-Assad. Russia has two military bases in ...

NASA said Williams and Wilmore, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr ... reaches the space station. The agency did not specify a date for the return of the astronauts.

The Tartus site is particularly critical, providing Russia with its only direct access to the Mediterranean Sea and a base to conduct naval exercises, station warships and even host nuclear ...