Russia 'Venus is a Russian planet,' Russian space agency director says Russia's space agency has announced an independent national effort to explore Earth's twin after news there could be signs of life in the Venus' clouds. 15/09/2020
Russia Ex-journalist denies passing Russian military secrets to NATO country Ivan Safronov, now an adviser to the Russian space agency, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of spying 08/07/2020
Russia Why is Russia arming its cosmonauts before they go into space? Spoiler alert: It's not to kill aliens. 20/09/2019
world news Europe's mission to hunt for life on Mars chooses its landing site The joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars mission has chosen an area called Oxia Planum as its favoured landing site to look for life, now or in the past. 09/11/2018
world news Russia planning moon base manned by robots Russia's space agency says it is considering establishing a base on the moon, possibly manned by robot avatars. 07/11/2018
Good Morning Europe Astronauts make emergency landing as engine fails on Soyuz rocket Russian officials are investigating the cause of a booster problem that forced a Soyuz rocket capsule to make an emergency landing just after launch 12/10/2018
Kazakhstan US-Russian crew returns from space station NASA's Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and Russia's Alexander Misurkin spent 168 days aboard the ISS. 28/02/2018