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New tests confirm antiquity of ancient human footprints in New Mexico
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Humans trod the landscape of North America thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to new research that confirms the antiquity of fossilized...
Oct 05, 2023
China to double size of space station, touts alternative to NASA-led ISS
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to expand its space station to six modules from three in coming years, offering astronauts from other nations an alternative platform for near-Earth missions as the NAS...
Oct 05, 2023
Prada and Axiom Space collaborate to design NASA’s lunar spacesuits
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian luxury group Prada and Texas-based startup Axiom Space will collaborate to design NASA's lunar spacesuits for the Artemis III mission planned for 2025, the two companies said...
Oct 04, 2023
Nobel Chemistry prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots used in LED lights
By Niklas Pollard and Ludwig Burger STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,...
Oct 04, 2023
Trio win 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for use of light to study electrons
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for using pulses of light to study the behaviour of electrons, in work which coul...
Oct 03, 2023
Russia says moon shot failed due to control unit malfunction
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday blamed a malfunction in an on-board control unit for causing its first lunar mission in 47 years to crash into the moon in August. The state space corporation, Ros...
Oct 03, 2023
China offers to collaborate on lunar mission as deadlines loom
BEIJING (Reuters) - China, which aims to become a major space power by 2030, has opened up a key lunar mission to international cooperation as mission deadlines loom for setting up a permanent habitat...
Oct 03, 2023
Avio’s Vega C rockets to fly again in late 2024 after ESA recommendations
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Avio said on Monday its Vega C rockets would return to flight in late 2024 after implementing fixes recommended by an independent panel set up by the European Space Agency (E...
Oct 02, 2023
Hungarian and U.S. scientists win medicine Nobel for COVID-19 vaccine work
By Niklas Pollard and Ludwig Burger STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman from Hungary and the United States respectively won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...
Oct 02, 2023
Social media and private partnership: inside the changes at India’s space agency
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - When the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon, more than 8 million people tuned in for the event's YouTu...
Sep 28, 2023
