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Bite marks reveal gladiator's fatal encounter with a lion in ancient Britain
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs....
Apr 23, 2025
China lunar chief accuses US of interfering in joint space programmes
BEIJING (Reuters) -The chief designer of China's lunar exploration programme accused the United States on Wednesday of interfering in Beijing's pushes to cooperate with Europe and other foreign partne...
Apr 23, 2025
China-led lunar base to include nuclear power plant on moon's surface, space official
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Preliminary plans for the China and Russia-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) include building a nuclear power plant on the moon's surface, a presentation by a Chinese...
Apr 23, 2025
China to launch Shenzhou-20 spaceflight on Thursday
BEIJING (Reuters) -China has set the launch for its Shenzhou-20 mission that will carry three astronauts to the Chinese space station for Thursday at 5.17 p.m. local time (0917 GMT), state media said ...
Apr 22, 2025
Planet with comet-like tail observed disintegrating near its star
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by ...
Apr 22, 2025
Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth, Russia's space agency says
(Reuters) -A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sund...
Apr 20, 2025
Luke Skywalker's planet orbited two stars. How about brown dwarfs instead?
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astro...
Apr 18, 2025
NASA rover finds fresh evidence of the warm and wet past of Mars
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter anc...
Apr 17, 2025
Science caught in crossfire of Trump's fight with universities
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, who works where medicine and engineering meet, saw federal funding for some of his projects frozen this week as his university clashed w...
Apr 17, 2025
Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our...
Apr 16, 2025
