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Although I can think of a few other "clowns" I would rather see hurled into space at this juncture of our history, Circe De Soliel founder Guy Laliberte got the jump on the other "Bozos"! Laliberte (50) paid a wopping...

The huge halo-like sight over the sky of Moscow that has been captured on video by many, looks very much like the UFO in the movie Independence Day . It has got the attention of UFO experts and theories are...

MOSCOW : Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday. Russia gained 4.5 square kilometers (2.8 square miles)...

The capital city of Moscow is known for its freezing snow filled winters that cost the city millions each winter in snow removal and clean up. This year the city's mayor Yuri Luzhkov has a plan to rid the city...

But it raises concerns about ice loss induced by global warming. Mariners have dreamed for centuries of finding a commercially viable shortcut between Europe and Asia across the top of the world. Many have died trying, but none succeeded until...

Expedition 20 bids farewell to orbit, heads to Earth 11 October, 2009, 06:16 The Soyuz spacecraft with the crew of its 20th mission and a space tourist onboard has undocked from the International Space Station and will return the crew...

The appearance of a giant circular cloud over the city of Moscow got some dumber UFO enthusiasts buzzing recently. A giant white cloud in the shape of a circle — or as it’s being called a “halo cloud” — was...

India, through Chandrayaan, was the pioneer in discovering existence of water on moon and similarly there was possibility of existence of minerals, including titanium, on it, Chandrayaan project director Mylswamy Annadurai said here. On Chandrayaan-II, he said the Rs425-crore project...

Feoktistov, a Soviet engineer who was one of the first civilian astronauts and a prominent spacecraft designer, died on Saturday in Moscow, the Russian space agency said...Mr. Feoktistov, for whom a crater was named on the Moon , was also...

Russia's representative, Dmitry Rogozin, did not say when the suggestion was made, only that Moscow "is still waiting for an answer," the news agency RIA Novosti reported. "We do not understand why our western neighbors, primarily East European and Baltic...