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KBR secures NASA contract worth up to $3.6 billion for astronaut health support
(Reuters) -Engineering contractor KBR said on Wednesday it had secured a $2.46 billion contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to support astronaut and worker health and safety...
Thomson Reuters Aug 13, 2025
Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 13, 2025
Ukraine successfully tests Starlink's direct-to-cell technology
(Reuters) -Ukraine's largest mobile operator Kyivstar has successfully conducted the first field test of Elon Musk's Starlink direct-to-cell satellite technology in Eastern Europe, the company said on...
Thomson Reuters Aug 12, 2025
'Alien' franchise crafts new creatures for 'Alien: Earth' TV show
By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Both new and familiar alien lifeforms lurk around in the Disney series "Alien: Earth," based on the original 1979 Ridley Scott "Alien" movie....
Thomson Reuters Aug 12, 2025
India's space regulator picks Google-backed PixxelSpace for home-grown satellite constellation
(Reuters) -India's space regulator has picked a consortium led by Google-backed startup PixxelSpace to build a commercial home-grown constellation of earth observation satellites, with an investment o...
Thomson Reuters Aug 12, 2025
Scientists find possible artefacts of oldest known Wallacean hominids in Indonesia
SOPPENG, Indonesia (Reuters) -Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia's Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and A...
Thomson Reuters Aug 10, 2025
NASA Crew-10 astronauts depart space station after five-month mission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four astronauts from NASA's Crew-10 mission departed the International Space Station on Friday aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, heading for a splashdown off the U.S. West Coast on...
Thomson Reuters Aug 08, 2025
Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 08, 2025
China tests spacecraft it hopes will put first Chinese on the moon
By Eduardo Baptista (Reuters) -China conducted its first test on Wednesday of a lunar lander that it hopes will put the first Chinese on the moon before 2030, the country's manned space program said. ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 07, 2025
Firefly Aerospace set to debut after largest US space IPO of the year
By Ateev Bhandari and Arasu Kannagi Basil (Reuters) -Firefly Aerospace will begin trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday after raising $868.3 million in the largest U.S. listing this year by a space tech c...
Thomson Reuters Aug 07, 2025




