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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
Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket passes launch rehearsal -ESA
PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's Ariane 6 launcher has passed a key rehearsal in preparation for its first flight, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday - part of efforts to bring the delayed roc...
Nov 23, 2023
Scientists identify new dinosaur species from footprints in Brazil
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) - Brazil's geological service on Thursday announced a new species of dinosaur, a speedy animal that lived in the desert during the early Cretaceous period. The new species, called...
Nov 23, 2023
Webb space telescope spies precocious ‘teenage’ galaxies
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since becoming operational last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has made groundbreaking observations involving some of the universe's earliest galaxies. One ...
Nov 21, 2023
