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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur roamed the ancient and remote river plains of Patagonia in southern Chile some 72 million years ago, a new study revealed on Friday. Scientists ...

(Reuters) - Virgin Galactic Holdings, the space tourism firm founded by Richard Branson, said on Thursday its first commercial spaceflight would launch later this month, sending its shares up 28% in t...

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - High concentrations of phosphorus, an essential element for all biological processes on Earth, have been detected in ice crystals spewed from the interior ocean of Saturn's...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian archaeologists have discovered an approximately 3,000-year-old mummy in Lima, they said on Wednesday, the latest discovery in the Andean nation dating to pre-Hispanic times. ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish startup PLD Space has signed an agreement with France's Arianespace to develop joint services to launch small satellites into orbit, the Spanish company said on Tuesday. The...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Space can be an unfriendly place for the human body, with microgravity conditions and other factors tampering with our physiology, from head to toe - head, of cou...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's plans to turn over its flagship rocket to contractors Boeing and Northrop Grumman to find more buyers and bring down costs faces steep hurdles thanks to ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossil remains of a cell membrane component identified in rocks dating back about 1.6 billion years are opening a window into what scientists are calling a "lost ...

By Lauren Owens Lambert MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine (Reuters) - An emerging technology to fish for lobsters virtually ropeless to prevent whale entanglements is exciting conservationists, but getting a fri...

By Gloria Dickie CAPE COD BAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) - In Cape Cod Bay, 10-year-old Pilgrim and her calf skim the water's glassy surface alongside the Shearwater research vessel to feed on tiny crus...