MOSCOW: Russia is planning to build national space station to put cosmonauts on the moon.
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, aims to retrieve the three Russian modules from the closed ISS, and use them to create a Russian orbital base that will allow the agency to better develop its space exploration capabilities. The eventual goal is to land Russian cosmonauts on the moon.
Russian commitment to the funding of the International Space Station beyond 2020 is significant because it is the first of the 15 involved nations to provide such an assurance. However, the latest announcement also makes Russia the first nation to confirm a date by which it will exit the international collaboration.
Astronomers discover distant dwarf planet beyond Neptune
LONDON: A dwarf planet half the size of Britain has been found tumbling through space in the most distant reaches...
