Russian Space Agency

The United States now has the ability to control the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) without Russian cooperation after a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft successfully boosted the space lab into a higher orbit.

​To experience life in and around the ISS requires years of astronaut training, but technology does continue to bring us closer to the experience. The latest example is a 360-degree video that places the viewer in the thick of the action as Russian cosmonauts carry out a spacewalk.

At the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, this week, NASA and the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, signed a joint statement making the US space agency's deep space gateway concept a common goal for the two major powers.

Russian space agency Roscosmos has released a video shot from the perspective of Earth, showing our Moon and Sun replaced with other planets in the solar system and well known stars, highlighting the scale and beauty of some of the best known astronomical objects.

Deep Space Industries (DSI) proposes setting up sentry lines in space to track and study rogue asteroids posing a threat to Earth.

The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is planning to launch probe Luna-Glob in 2015 as a first step toward building a fully robotic base on the surface of the Moon.

Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars probe has burnt up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere with the remaining fragments believed to have crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

The Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe is trapped in low Earth orbit with the prospects of an uncontrolled re-entry growing by the hour.

Transport to the ISS looks to be back on track after the Russian space agency successfully launched an unmanned Progress cargo ship into orbit.