Indeed, Russian crew members have been hard at work identifying several leaks located in the country's segment of the space station. Other notable equipment failures include two coolant leaks ...

The station’s opening marks the revival of Russia’s programme of drifting stations that was suspended in the summer of 2013 after the North Pole-40 Russian drifting station had been evacuated ...

Two Russian airborne divisions are making preparations ... Two drifting bases will be created near the North Pole this year. One, called Kupol, will be used for military purposes.

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A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules launched separately and brought together in orbit. A quarter-century later, in 1987, this concept became reality when ...

The planet's magnetic North Pole, where compasses point, has been unexpectedly moving toward Russia. While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it ...

There is an air leak in a Russian module on the station, and space suits aboard the station have been malfunctioning. So NASA is making plans to "deorbit" the station, contracting with SpaceX to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida--A Russian cosmonaut who caught a U.S. lift to the International Space Station arrived at her new home Thursday for a five-month stay, accompanied by a Japanese astronaut ...