Venus is a pressure cooker with surface temperatures that melt lead. Yet, in the 1970s, the Soviet Union achieved the impossible: landing probes on its surface. This video chronicles the daring Venera ...

For decades, Venus was a mystery hidden behind thick clouds, and it was the Soviet Union that forced the truth out of it.

On this day in 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft made history with a close flyby of Venus, marking a major milestone in the early years of space exploration. The mission became America’s first ...

Can India overcome years of delays to finally send its own spacecraft astronauts into orbit? That depends on crucial launches ...

One of the greatest lyricists of Belarusian music had no rivals when it came to the main thing — the love of listeners. The composer called the theme of the Motherland the major one for him, and it ...

Closely tied to Washington during much of the Cold War, Venezuela has gone through political upheavals over the years that ...

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...

A Russian Arctic expedition aboard the Akademik Ioffe has uncovered an undocumented radioactive waste site in the Bay of ...

The story of the Mikati, an aging tanker currently passing through the English Channel, illustrates the strengths and ...

America's shift away from global leadership is creating uncertainty. The US is no longer acting as the world's policeman.

What is essential for this problem is a global consciousness [...] that transcends our exclusive identifications with the generational and political groupings into which by accident we have been born.