Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
China aims to put first Chinese on the moon before 2030
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said it aims to put the first Chinese on the moon before 2030, state television CCTV said on Thursday. China will coordinate and promote the application and development of it...
Feb 29, 2024
Iran's Pars 1 satellite enters space after Russian launch
DUBAI (Reuters) - Russia launched into space an Iranian research satellite which will scan Iran's topography from an orbit of 500 km (310 miles), Iran's state media reported on Thursday. The remote Pa...
Feb 29, 2024
People with tails? No, because of this ancient genetic mutation
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Director James Cameron's "Avatar" movies are populated by a species of outsized blue beings resembling humans, except with tails. So why does our species lack a t...
Feb 28, 2024
Odysseus moon lander continues to generate power, Intuitive Machines says
(Reuters) - Intuitive Machines said on Wednesday its Odysseus moon lander continues to generate solar power, allowing flight controllers to gather data from the south pole region. Flight controllers a...
Feb 28, 2024
North Korea's first spy satellite is 'alive', can manoeuvre, expert says
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's first spy satellite is "alive," a Netherlands-based space expert said on Tuesday, after detecting changes in its orbit that suggest Pyongyang is successfu...
Feb 28, 2024
US spacecraft and Russian satellite to pass dangerously near each other, NASA says
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense is monitoring a close pass between NASA's Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics Mission (TIMED) spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 s...
Feb 28, 2024
Odysseus moon lander likely has 10 to 20 hours of battery life left, company says
By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) - Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since 1972, has roughly 10 to 20 hours of battery life left, according to flight controllers who a...
Feb 27, 2024
India announces four-member crew for 'Gaganyaan' space mission
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India on Tuesday introduced four crew members for its maiden 'Gaganyaan' space voyage, as it aims to become the world's fourth country to send a crewed mission into space just mo...
Feb 27, 2024
Moon lander Odysseus mission expected to end Tuesday morning, 5 days after touchdown
(Reuters) - Communications with the private U.S. moon lander Odysseus are expected to cease Tuesday morning, effectively ending its science mission five days after touchdown, the company behind the sp...
Feb 26, 2024
Astronomers observe scar on white dwarf 'cannibal' star
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A slowly cooling stellar ember called a white dwarf with a scar on its face is providing new insight into the behavior of certain "cannibal" stars at the end of t...
Feb 26, 2024
