Russia reports 11 stations ranging in size from 15 to 100 people, but five of those stations are temporarily closed (including Russkaya), and most of the rest are in dire need of modernization. The ...

For the first time in the history of independent Belarus, the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus was raised at the inland ...

The Russian government said early Thursday (Dec. 5) that the new wintering complex at the country's Vostok Station in Antarctica had been put into operation. In a post on X, the Russian embassy in ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, then 27, became the first human to enter space on ...

In 2024, the Hydrometeorological Service held the VIII All-Russian Joint Meteorological and Hydrological ... and the creation of a new wintering complex at the Vostok station in Antarctica has been ...

Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space ...

Russia’s government station, Vostok 2.0, was part-funded by the Russian billionaire and natural gas magnate Leonid Mikhelson. The day after Trump issued his Antarctic cuts, Russia’s polar ...

Russia’s government station, Vostok 2.0, was part-funded by the Russian billionaire and natural gas magnate Leonid Mikhelson. The day after Trump issued his Antarctic cuts, Russia’s polar institute ...

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...