As per recent reports, it has been revealed that Greenpeace, a lobby group, has planted a flag at the North Pole in order to make Arctic as a global sanctuary, which should be protected from oil drilling.

Back on April 12, 1961, a Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly to space when he took off from Earth in Vostok space capsule. The flight lasted for 108 minutes.

After treading for less than six hours, a Soyuz space capsule docked at the International Space Station (ISS).

This route involved four orbits. The space capsule nestled three men. Usually a journey of this kind takes only two men. After the arrival of Russians Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and Chris Cassidy, the team strength has reached six.

As per recent reports, it has been revealed that Europe and Russia have signed a deal as per which they will be carrying out joint Mars mission. It is said that space agencies of both the countries have been trying to explore life beyond Earth.

On March 14, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos signed a deal under which they will be sending spacecrafts to Mars to find signs of life on it.

A fragment of horn has been found in South Siberian Republic of Gorny Altai in Russia. It is estimated that the horn belongs to an animal that died about 18,000 years ago. It was discovered a few days ago in a pit of sand and gravel in the republic's Miamin district.

In order to prevent any threat from the rear-ender of meteor with Earth, Russian officials have worked out some plans.

A research published in the PLOS One has indicated about the close relation between humans and dogs. Russian researchers said they have assessed dog remains, which were as old as 33,000 years.

Scientists from the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry have revealed that heavy snowfall in Russia has made them to halt the meteor seeking operation until spring.

Reports have confirmed that Russia's Ural Federal University has recovered a meteorite fragment weighing one kg, which is the largest fragment discovered so far after search operations were conducted following a meteorite strike on 15 February in Russia.