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NASA mulls SpaceX backup plan for crew of Russia’s leaky Soyuz ship
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA is exploring whether SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft can potentially offer an alternative ride home for some crew members of the International Space Statio...
Dec 28, 2022
Extinction crisis puts 1 million species on the brink
By Katy Daigle and Julia Janicki (Reuters) - Nature is in crisis, and it's only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on th...
Dec 23, 2022
Russia mulls early return of space station crew after Soyuz capsule leak
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia's space agency said it is considering a "rescue" plan to send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) to bring home three crew membe...
Dec 22, 2022
NASA formally retires Mars InSight lander after 4-year mission
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it...
Dec 21, 2022
Investigators to probe failed Italian Vega C rocket launch
By Alvise Armellini and Tim Hepher ROME/PARIS (Reuters) - A European investigation is being launched after the latest version of the Italian Vega C rocket failed on its second mission, with the loss o...
Dec 21, 2022
Endangered pink iguana hatchlings seen for first time on Galapagos island
QUITO (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered hatchling and juvenile populations of the Galapagos pink land iguana, an endangered reptile native to a sole island on the Ecuadorean archipelago, for the ...
Dec 20, 2022
Signs of Salome, said to be nurse to baby Jesus, unearthed in Israel
By Dedi Hayoun LACHISH FOREST, Israel (Reuters) - Excavations of a cave reputed to be the burial place of Salome, said in non-canonical scripture to have been nurse to the newborn Jesus, have found mo...
Dec 20, 2022
Russia says leak on Soyuz spacecraft caused by 0.8-millimetre hole
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A hole less than one millimetre in diameter is to blame for a coolant leak from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS), the head of Russia's Rosc...
Dec 19, 2022
Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial
By Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) - Scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have successfully trialled a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae they say could eventually help rewi...
Dec 19, 2022
Robotic arm to inspect leaky Soyuz spacecraft, Russia says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A 17-metre-long Canadian-made robotic arm on the International Space Station will inspect a docked Soyuz spacecraft after a leak was noticed just before a spacewalk last week, Russi...
Dec 18, 2022
