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Iran sends up rocket with test living capsule
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran sent up a rocket with a test living space capsule on Wednesday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, as the country pressed on with plans to send astronauts into space...
Dec 06, 2023
Oldest mosquito fossil comes with a bloodsucking surprise
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are killed annually by malaria and other diseases spread through the bite of mosquitoes, insects that date back to the a...
Dec 05, 2023
China’s LandSpace readies satellite launch with methane rocket
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-based LandSpace Technology, one of China's private space companies, is preparing to launch a satellite payload to orbit in the first commercial test of its rocket powered b...
Dec 04, 2023
Scientists launch research effort at COP28 for Congo rainforest
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Hundreds of scientists at the United Nations COP28 climate summit on Sunday launched a research coalition aimed at correcting a historic lack of information about ...
Dec 03, 2023
Astronomers surprised to find planet ‘too massive for its star’
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Our Milky Way galaxy's most common type of star is called a red dwarf - much smaller and less luminous than our sun. These stars - or so it was thought - simply a...
Dec 01, 2023
Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket to launch between June 15-July 31, 2024
PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's new Ariane 6 launcher will stage an inaugural flight between June 15 and July 31 in 2024, the European Space Agency said on Thursday. The keenly awaited window for the first...
Nov 30, 2023
Six planets found in synchronized orbit may help solve cosmic puzzle
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They are the most common type of planet observed in our Milky Way galaxy - two to three times the diameter of Earth but smaller than Neptune, and orbiting closer ...
Nov 29, 2023
In a first, a newborn star’s spinning disk is seen in another galaxy
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Our sun and other stars form when a dense clump of interstellar gas and dust collapses under its own gravitational pull. Once a star is born at the center of such...
Nov 29, 2023
NASA to train Indian astronaut for ISS voyage in deepening space ties
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - NASA will train an Indian astronaut for a voyage to the International Space Station as early as next year, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Wednes...
Nov 29, 2023
U.S. to launch joint remote sensing satellite with India early next year
(Reuters) - The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the NASA plan to launch a joint remote sensing satellite for Earth observation in the first quarter of next year, deputy minister for scie...
Nov 28, 2023
