Terry Virts, a retired US astronaut, has called for scaling back joint missions with Russia on the International Space ...

“What goes up, must come down.” That’s pretty much the way gravity works and it’s a great song by the band “The Alan Parsons Project”. Then there's the story of Chicken Little. He gets hit on the head ...

A huge scare was had in Indonesia after a Soviet Union spacecraft crashed to Earth, falling into the Indian Ocean, just a few kilometers off the coast. However, it was not a curren ...

Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

monetary and social union. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said the pact marked the "birth of a free and unified Germany." In 1991, chemist Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space when she ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

A predecessor to the lost Soviet spacecraft, either the Venera ... failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

A young Conservative Party candidate talks to a CBC reporter in 2004., the race for the NDP's first leader in 1961, and more.

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

After a groundbreaking discovery that found possible evidence of life in Venus’s acidic skies, Toronto-born Sara Seager is leading a robot mission to the planet ...

Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 re-enters Earth's atmosphere after 53 years in orbit without causing injuries or damage, emphasizing the issue of space debris and the importance of satellite tracking ...

A Soviet spacecraft originally launched toward Venus in 1972 has astonishingly returned to Earth after spending over half a ...