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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
Scientists discover hammerhead shark nursery in Ecuador’s Galapagos
QUITO (Reuters) - A team of researchers has discovered a nursery of baby hammerhead sharks off an island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago, a finding that could help protect the species from the thre...
Dec 16, 2022
No evidence of space aliens so far in the Pentagon’s UFO deep-dive
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's new push to investigate reports of UFOs has so far not yielded any evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth or crash-land...
Dec 16, 2022
NASA set to launch first global water survey satellite
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket was due for launch from California early on Friday carrying a U.S.-French satellite designed to conduct the first global survey of Earth's surfa...
Dec 16, 2022
Micrometeoroid strike could be cause of Russian spacecraft leak – official
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - A coolant leak lasting for at least three hours Wednesday night aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule docked to the International Space Station could have been caused by a ...
Dec 15, 2022
Unexplained leak from docked Soyuz spacecraft cancels Russian ISS spacewalk
(Reuters) - A planned routine spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station was called off on Wednesday after flight controllers noticed a stream of particles spewing from...
Dec 14, 2022
NASA to conduct first global water survey from space
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project to conduct a compreh...
Dec 13, 2022
