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While falling over themselves to support Ukraine, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from its agenda.

Space Conference Censors Name of First Human in Space Because He Was Russian

By Noor Al-Sibai

An "IT army" is amassing on popular messaging platform Telegram, volunteers determined to take down the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

300,000 Volunteer “Hackers” Are Attacking Russian Computer Systems

By Victor Tangermann

The head of Russia’s space program Dmitry Rogozin responded with a cryptic message to Elon Musk's challenge to fight Putin.

Russian Space Chief Responds to Elon Musk’s Challenge to Fight Putin

By Tony Ho Tran

Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, appealed to NASA for help in the wake of restrictive economic sanctions on his home country

In Change of Strategy, Russian Space Program Begs NASA for Help

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook has worked itself into a corner over its handling of moderating threats against Russians on its platform amid the country's invasion of Ukraine.

Facebook Says the Week When You Could Threaten Putin With Death Is Over

By Victor Tangermann

The billionaire issued a challenge to Putin on Monday morning via Twitter. Musk added that the stakes for the match will be Ukraine.

Elon Musk Challenges Vladimir Putin to “Single Combat” for Ukraine

By Tony Ho Tran

A top Russian Wikipedia editor had been arrested for spreading "fake news" by Belarus authorities working with president of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Russia Reportedly Arrests Man for Editing Wikipedia About Ukraine

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's now okay for users in some countries to call for violence against Russians on Facebook — but only if it's the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Facebook Says It’s Okay to Call for Violence Against Vladimir Putin, as a Treat

By Victor Tangermann

Things have gotten so out of hand, Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin recently threatened to leave NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei behind on the ISS.

NASA Astronaut “Enraged” by Russian Threat to Leave American Stranded in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Law enforcement is starting to seize super yachts owned by Russian oligarchs — and online pundits are watching with glee, The Washington Post reports.

Russian Oligarchs’ Superyachts Are Being Seized, and the Internet Is Loving It

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitiry Rogozin, the head of the country’s space program Roscosmos, has allegedly forbidden agency employees from being able to travel abroad.

Russian Space Program Is Apparently Forbidding Employees From Traveling Abroad, Fearing They’ll Flee

By Tony Ho Tran

Ukraine's foremost climate scientist believes that fossil fuels are not only the greatest threat to humanity, but a driving factor in Russia's invasion of her country as well.

Top Ukrainian Scientist Calls Russian Invasion a “Fossil Fuel War”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former NASA astronaut continues to feud with the Russia space agency head — and this time, he’s choosing to side with the Ukrainian president.

NASA Astronaut Who Tore Into Russian Space Boss Pledges Support for Ukraine President

By Tony Ho Tran

The Biden administration is bragging it has produced a record amounts of oil and gas as world powers look to end their reliance on Russian oil.

White House Brags That America Is Producing More Oil and Gas Than Ever

By Victor Tangermann

After declaring "cyber war against the Russian government" last week, famed Guy Fawkes mask-themed hacker group Anonymous is hacking Russian TV services.

Anonymous Says It’s Hacking Entire Russian Television Channels Now

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has some fresh advice for the world’s nations: Invest in nuclear power plants — and do it as soon as possible.

Elon Musk Says We Need More Nuclear Energy After Russia Targets Power Plants

By Tony Ho Tran

Russia fired missiles a location containing a nuclear reactor in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology has nuclear fuel cells.

Ukraine Says Russia Is Attacking Another Nuclear Plant

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Map That Calculates Nuclear Blast Zones Spikes in Popularity

Map That Calculates Nuclear Blast Zones Spikes in Popularity

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A bizarre new video from Russian controlled media RIA Novosti showed the International Space Station breaking apart after cosmonauts departed.

Russia Releases Bizarre Video of Space Station Breaking Apart

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Coinbase and Binance won't shut down cryptocurrency exchanges for Russia unless forced to comply with US sanctions or laws.

Major Crypto Exchanges Say They Won’t Shut Down Russian Transactions Unless They’re Forced

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Russia's internet regulator Roskomnazor has announced it is officially blocking Facebook outright in retaliation of the company blocking state media.

Russia Is Officially Blocking All Access to Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

One UK father is getting backlash online for tricking his family into thinking Russia launched a nuclear bomb attack with a prank BBC news segment.

Dad Criticized for “Pranking” Family Into Thinking They Were Going to Die in Nuclear War

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A NASA flight controller and safety engineer aboard the ISS said that geopolitical tensions haven't affected his relationship with his Russian coworkers.

International Space Station

NASA ISS Engineer Says Relationships With Russian Counterparts Still Cordial

By Tony Ho Tran

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has cut itself off from the international space community, with its head Dmitry Rogozin making a series of increasingly bizarre public communications — and the consequences may now be starting to show.

Bumbling Russian Space Boss Forced to Slash Huge Raise He Gave Himself

By Victor Tangermann

As if invading a sovereign nation wasn't provocation enough, Russian troops opened fire at Europe's largest nuclear power station early Friday morning.

Authorities Furious That Russia Attacked Nuclear Plant

By Victor Tangermann

Russians are still able to use cryptocurrency exchanges to circumvent newly imposed sanctions — and former First Lady Hillary Clinton is absolutely furious.

Hillary Clinton Calls Out Crypto Exchanges for Letting Russia Bypass Sanctions

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, has had enough of sanctions. He's cutting the US off from Russian-made rocket engines.

Russia Mocked for Cutting US Off From Its Outdated Rocket Engines

By Victor Tangermann

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, many experts are beginning to sound the alarm on the risk fighting poses on the country’s nuclear power plants.

Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plants at “Unprecedented” Risk Due to Russian Invasion

By Tony Ho Tran

Space experts say that if Moscow decides to pull out from the ISS, it would leave NASA and other agencies with little option but to destroy the station.

NASA Insiders Say If Russia Pulls Out of ISS, It May Need to Be Destroyed

By Tony Ho Tran

Jack Sweeney has created new Twitter accounts that track the movements of Russian oligarchs – including Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.

Teen Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet Now Tracking Russian Oligarchs

By Tony Ho Tran

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's outspoken head of its space agency, denied recent reports that hackers had seized control of the nation's spy satellites.

Hackers Claim They’ve Seized Control of Russian Spy Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

New sanctions have Russian leadership scrambling — with Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin turning to China for help. But China may not come to the rescue.

Russia Says It’ll Buy Space Parts From China, But China Says Uhhh Not So Fast

By Victor Tangermann

Rogozin has drawn the ire of space experts across the spectrum who have accused him of being a propaganda mouthpiece for the Russian military.

Head of Russian Space Program Criticized for Posting “Pure Propaganda”

By Tony Ho Tran

While the US supplies the outpost with both power and life support, Russia provides propulsion to keep the ISS in orbit using its Progress spacecraft.

NASA Investigating How to Keep Space Station Aloft Without Russian Boosters

By Victor Tangermann

Electric vehicle (EV) chargers on a Russian highway were shut down and programmed to display anti-Putin messages on its display screens on Monday

Advanced Transport

Ukrainian Company Shuts Down Russian EV Chargers, Spams Them with Anti-Putin Messages

By Tony Ho Tran

The international space community has been distancing itself from Russia after it invaded Ukraine. But NASA astronaut Vande Hei will still ride a Soyuz.

Awkward! A NASA Astronaut Is Currently Scheduled to Fly Back to Earth in a Russian Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Alphabet Inc decided to temporarily disable live traffic data on Google Maps in Ukraine due to the danger it posed on civilians and troops.

Google Disables Maps in Ukraine After It Revealed Troop Movements

By Tony Ho Tran

The Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded in the Russian sky back in 2013 could actually have been involved in the creation of Earth's Moon.

2013 Meteor May Have Been Involved in Creating the Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that a Dragon spacecraft could keep the International Space Station aloft if Russia abandons it as they threatened.

International Space Station

Elon Musk Suggests That SpaceX Could Keep ISS Aloft Despite Russian Threats

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Russia has largely cut itself off from the international community with the invasion of Ukraine, which could bode badly for its space efforts as well.

Congressman Proposes Kicking Russian Cosmonauts Out of Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Hacktivist group Anonymous claimed to have taken down websites connected to the Russian government including state sponsored news website Russia Today.

Hacker Group Anonymous Says It’s Taking Down Russian State Sites

By Tony Ho Tran

"If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from uncontrolled deorbiting and falling into the United States," he wrote.

Head of Russian Space Program Appears to Threaten to Smash US With Space Debris

By Victor Tangermann

Ukraine’s president has announced that Russian troops are moving towards the Chernobyl — and could risk damaging the sealed off nuclear reactor.

Ukraine Says Russia Is Trying to Seize Chernobyl’s Melted Down Nuclear Reactor

By Tony Ho Tran

Ukrainian scientists have long feared that military escalation between Russia and their country would result in lost progress in research.

Ukrainian Scientists Worried Russian Invasion Will Result in Lost Research

By Tony Ho Tran

As tensions mount with Russia, some are beginning to fear that geopolitical conflict might pose an existential threat to the International Space Station.

Expert: No, Russia Isn’t Going to Pull Its Modules to Sabotage the ISS

By Tony Ho Tran

A group of Russian teenagers got in trouble this week for planning to blow up a fake government building built in Minecraft. One was sentenced to prison.

Teen Sentenced to Prison for Plotting Terror Attack in Minecraft

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In space, Russia, Ukraine, and the US are just shapes on the globe — just ask the astronauts and cosmonauts.

NASA Astronaut Touts the Benefits of Drinking Russian Pee

By Noor Al-Sibai

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

By Tony Ho Tran

As the Russian military are gathering forces near the Ukrainian border, a hacktivist group claims they hacked a Belarusian railway system.

Hackers Trying to Prevent War by Disrupting Railway Used by Russian Military

By Tony Ho Tran

A Russian rocket booster is making its uncontrolled re-entry through the atmosphere right now — and officials aren't entirely sure where it will hit.

Russian Rocket Part Careening Back Down to Earth After Failed Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin announced on Twitter that Russia will send cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the ISS next year on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

Russia Mocked SpaceX. Now It’s Reserved a Seat for a Cosmonaut

By Victor Tangermann

Russia might soon press criminal charges against a NASA astronaut for allegedly sabotaging one of their spacecraft in 2018.

Russia Legally Threatens NASA Astronaut for Allegedly Sabotaging Space Station

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Missile Defense Agency has awarded contracts to several military contractors to design a system to take out enemy hypersonic missiles.

US Military: Let’s Shoot Down Hypersonic Missiles With Smaller Hypersonic Missiles

NASA has announced that the International Space Station (ISS) is still at a heightened risk of colliding with Russian space debris.

International Space Station

Surprise! The ISS Is Still at Risk From Russian Weapon Test

By Noor Al-Sibai

The international space community was in shock when Russia tested an anti-satellite missile. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has yet to issue a statement.

Everyone’s Condemned Russia Blowing Up a Satellite… Except Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

A recording of the International Space Station crew scrambling for safety after a Russian anti-satellite missile test has been released.

International Space Station

Hear the Moment ISS Crew Scrambles for Safety from Russian Satellite Debris

By Tony Ho Tran

Russia's Ministry of Defense is defending its reckless actions after blasting an old satellite into 1,500 trackable pieces of space debris.

Russia Says Actually It’s Fine That It Blew Up a Satellite, Filled Orbit With Deadly Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

The US Space Command announced that Russia was behind the debris field that threatened the ISS after it tested an anti-satellite missile on Monday.

Russia Blows Up Satellite, Forcing Its Own Cosmonauts to Cower in Fear

By Tony Ho Tran

US-Russian relations have hit a new low after Russia conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) test in orbit.

US Government Furious at Russian Anti-Satellite Test

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian space corporation Roscosmos, said that he's planning to assign cosmonauts to fly on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Russia Admits Defeat, Says It’ll Launch Cosmonauts on SpaceX Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

After 12 days of filming aboard the International Space Station, the first ever feature-length movie shot in space has finally wrapped.

Russian Film Crew Returns to Earth, Continues Shooting Immediately After Landing

By Tony Ho Tran

Disappointed by Roscosmos' lack of results and failure to keep pace with SpaceX, Vladimir Putin is drastically cutting the space agency's budget.

A Disappointed Putin Is Slashing Funding for Russia’s Space Program

By Dan Robitzski

Russia passed a new law declaring that any independent reporters or media organizations that cover the space program will be designated "foreign agents."

Russia Bans Journalists From Covering Its Space Program

By Dan Robitzski

Russian actress Yulia Peresild arrived at the International Space Station yesterday to film "The Challenge," the first feature length movie filmed in space.

Russian Actress Boards Space Station, Says She Feels Like She’s Dreaming

By Victor Tangermann