Space agencies from both countries are hoping to work together to eventually build a lunar settlement.
Amid the numerous doomsday predictions of recent weeks comes the news that we are actually quite safe.
Vitaly Yegorov has managed to raise over 1 million rubles online to fund a new lunar satellite mission.
The Risso's dolphin calf was spotted alongside its mother by whale watchers off the coast of California.
The new mission will attempt a potentially world-saving maneuver by redirecting an asteroid's trajectory.
Transhumanists have been looking towards a future in which a person could spend their entire life awake.
An ambitious new mission aims to send a spacecraft to pick up samples collected by NASA's Mars rover.
Competitive eater Nela Zisser managed to consume almost two dozen large burgers in one session.
The new research endeavor will make it possible for anyone to make a ground-breaking fossil discovery.
Footage recorded by an airline passenger shows a dark-colored object skirting the wings of the plane.
NASA's New Horizons probe might have finished with Pluto but its mission is not over by a long shot.
Six people will spend the next year living in a dome in Hawaii to simulate a manned mission to Mars.
Scientists have managed to create a device that can transmit a magnetic field from one place to another.
A 'yeti' once commissioned by a Victorian shop keeper has sold at auction in Somerset for £1,350.
Authorities have reported that the skull of film director FW Murnau has been stolen from his grave.
An anomyous millionnaire has offered a huge reward to help identify who stole Dororthy's ruby slippers.
Researchers have concluded that a manned mission to Mars is unlikely to contaminate the planet.
NASA has announced that it has reached a major new milestone in its upcoming mission to explore Europa.
Deposits of impact glass on the surface of Mars could potentially contain traces of ancient life forms.
Red blood cells and connective tissues are thought to be preserved within countless fossil specimens.