Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown ...

Quartz movements were once seen as the ticking death knell of the mechanical watch industry. Many collectors scoff at these electronic pieces and will not consider them. However, there are pockets of ...

The M-8 "Kholmogory", M-4 "Don", M-12 "Vostok" and M-11 "Neva" highways are considered as priority areas for the development of road service facilities, which may include charging stations, according ...

Sarah Kaplan is a climate reporter covering humanity's response to a warming world. She previously reported on Earth science and the universe. Most of the victims of the Los Angeles fires were ...

Pressagentry is supersensitive in the U.S.S.R. And so, not until last week did Russia let the world know about a dramatic August 1960 crisis that almost brought disaster to Vostok, the Soviet base ...

The two pads at Site 43 – designated 43/3 and 43/4 were initially used by Vostok-2M, Voskhod and Molniya-M rockets, with the first Soyuz launch from the complex being the maiden flight of the ...

Then they launched Yuri Gagarin and the Vostok and Voskhod manned missions. Aleksei Leonov — who, under Korolev’s aegis, made the first-ever space walk, during the Voskhod 2 mission ...