In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

This bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of what Russians refer to as the “Great Patriotic War.” Betrayed by their purported “allies ...

In April 2025, rumors spread on social media about an allegedly declassified CIA document that proved a story about aliens turning 23 Soviet soldiers to stone after a UFO was shot down.

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

What they didn’t and couldn’t know then was that what he calls their Gefangenshaft — their imprisonment — in prisoner-of-war camps deep inside the Soviet Union would last not days, weeks, months, or ...

which had a terrifying encounter with a Soviet commando in 1990, at the height of the Cold War According to the report, published by RadarOnline.com, the encounter caused the aliens to turn the ...

A commission formed jointly by the Estonian Government Office and under the National War Museum (Sõjamuuseum) has announced it has found over 360 war monuments and graves erected by Soviet authorities ...

More than five decades ago, Cosmos 482 was hurled into space. Hopes were high as the Soviet Union targeted Venus in 1972. But the mission went astray and remained trapped around Earth. Now ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again lauded Elon Musk, comparing him to Soviet space pioneer Sergei Korolev. Putin highlighted Musk's Mars ambitions and innovative spirit during a ...

The commandant of the notorious camp admitted to overseeing tests that included throwing a new kind of hand grenade into a room filled with inmates to test it, declassified Soviet files released ...

Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest to find an alternative. The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem ...