Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
Japan gives $80 million subsidy to moon exploration startup ispace
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will provide a 12 billion yen ($80 million) subsidy for moon exploration startup ispace, industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Friday. Tokyo-based ispace aims to launch...
Oct 19, 2023
Olympics being used as tool of political pressure and discrimination, Putin says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has learnt that the Olympics can be used as a tool of political pressure and ethnic discrimination, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. "The Games can be used as an in...
Oct 19, 2023
Scientists test Fukushima fish after nuclear plant water release
IWAKI, Japan (Reuters) - A team of international scientists collected fish samples from a port town near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, seeking to assess the impact of the plant...
Oct 19, 2023
Scientists surprised by source of largest quake detected on Mars
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On May 4, 2022, NASA's InSight lander detected the largest quake yet recorded on Mars, one with a 4.7 magnitude - fairly modest by Earth standards but strong for ...
Oct 18, 2023
India aims to send astronaut to the moon by 2040
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India aims to send an astronaut to the moon by 2040, the government said on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued instructions to the space department that include plan...
Oct 17, 2023
Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature, expanding on evolution
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" - proposing that biological species change...
Oct 16, 2023
Annular solar eclipse transfixes crowds across the Americas
By Alberto Fajardo CAMPECHE, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of people across the Americas gazed at the heavens on Saturday to witness a rare phenomenon known as an annular solar eclipse, when the moon p...
Oct 15, 2023
Annular solar eclipse transfixes crowds across the Americas
By Alberto Fajardo CAMPECHE, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of people across the Americas gazed at the heavens on Saturday to witness a rare phenomenon known as an annular solar eclipse, when the moon p...
Oct 14, 2023
Explainer-What to know about Saturday’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of people in the Americas will be in a position to witness an astronomical treat on Saturday with a solar eclipse in which - weather permitting - the moo...
Oct 13, 2023
NASA set to launch spacecraft to explore metal-rich asteroid Psyche
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - NASA was due on Friday to launch a spacecraft from Florida on its way to Psyche, a distant, metal-rich asteroid that is the solar system's largest-known metallic object and...
Oct 13, 2023
