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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - High concentrations of phosphorus, an essential element for all biological processes on Earth, have been detected in ice crystals spewed from the interior ocean of Saturn's...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian archaeologists have discovered an approximately 3,000-year-old mummy in Lima, they said on Wednesday, the latest discovery in the Andean nation dating to pre-Hispanic times. ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish startup PLD Space has signed an agreement with France's Arianespace to develop joint services to launch small satellites into orbit, the Spanish company said on Tuesday. The...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Space can be an unfriendly place for the human body, with microgravity conditions and other factors tampering with our physiology, from head to toe - head, of cou...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's plans to turn over its flagship rocket to contractors Boeing and Northrop Grumman to find more buyers and bring down costs faces steep hurdles thanks to ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossil remains of a cell membrane component identified in rocks dating back about 1.6 billion years are opening a window into what scientists are calling a "lost ...

By Lauren Owens Lambert MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine (Reuters) - An emerging technology to fish for lobsters virtually ropeless to prevent whale entanglements is exciting conservationists, but getting a fri...

By Gloria Dickie CAPE COD BAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) - In Cape Cod Bay, 10-year-old Pilgrim and her calf skim the water's glassy surface alongside the Shearwater research vessel to feed on tiny crus...

By Alvise Armellini SAN CASCIANO DEI BAGNI, Italy (Reuters) - One of Italy's most remarkable archaeological finds in decades goes on show this month - Etruscan and Roman statues pulled from the mud in...

By Colette Luke and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecraft headed to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, she felt a...