That was the case on Monday when a Russian Soyuz rocket endured a lightning strike shortly after takeoff from the ... Scientists just solved a 70-year old problem with fusion energy. Science.

The rocket, built entirely from Russian components, can lift 23 metric tons to low Earth orbit and 5.4 metric tons to geosynchronous Earth orbit. The second stage, called Orion, ...

Rogozin also reported that Russia’s other major rocket program, the Angara family of boosters, will see another test flight this year — again demonstrating the heavy A5 variant with four strap ...

A Russian rocket on Thursday successfully put an Iranian satellite into orbit, a launch that underlined increasingly close cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. Russia's state-run Roscosmos ...

Russia has developed a new rocket and a new launch site as it considers a lunar research program. After two aborted launches, the Angara-A5 was successfully test-launched.

Russia has unveiled a new unguided "dumb" rocket, kitted out with a cluster warhead to scatter a wide area with submunitions as Moscow looks to improve its military capabilities in the face of ...

Russia launches lunar rocket, its first in decades Russia’s last lunar lander, Luna 24, landed on the moon on August 18, 1976.

MOSCOW — Russian space officials on Tuesday aborted the test launch of a new heavy-lift rocket from its far-eastern launch pad. The Angara-A5 rocket was scheduled to lift off from the Vostochny ...

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Russian father of rocketry, was a self-educated man, but he developed insights into space travel and rocket science that are still in use over a hundred years later ...

Here’s what I saw after a Russian rocket attack → Russia fired 55 missiles at Ukraine on Monday as part of a campaign to cripple its civilian infrastructure. Ukraine’s air defenses shot down ...

A Russian Grad rocket-launcher almost accidentally shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 attack jet as it streaked toward the front line at low altitude recently. The near-miss, depicted in a shocking ...

A viable nuclear fusion reactor — one that spits out more energy than it consumes — could be here as soon as 2025. That's the takeaway of seven new studies, published Sept. 29 in the Journal ...