Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
German startup's space rocket explodes after takeoff from Norway
OSLO (Reuters) -A test rocket aimed at kickstarting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded 40 seconds after takeoff from a Norwegian space port on Sunday, in what German startu...
Thomson Reuters Mar 30, 2025
Airbus UK unit wins $194 million contract for Mars rover landing platform
By Sam Tabahriti LONDON (Reuters) - The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the landing platform for the first British-mad...
Thomson Reuters Mar 28, 2025
European satellite firms in preliminary EU talks over merger plan -source
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - European aerospace companies Airbus, Thales and Leonardo have started preliminary talks with European Union antitrust regulators over a possible merger of their satelli...
Thomson Reuters Mar 28, 2025
Tomb of unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh discovered
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 27, 2025
NASA, Boeing to start testing Starliner for next flight aimed at early 2026
(Reuters) - NASA said on Thursday it was moving toward certifying Boeing's CST-100 Starliner for crewed flights later this year or by early 2026 after its inaugural mission to the International Space ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 27, 2025
U.S. Space Force awards national security contracts to Rocket Lab, Stoke Space
(Reuters) - The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command said on Thursday it had awarded contracts to Rocket Lab USA and Stoke Space to expand its portfolio of launch systems for critical space capabi...
Thomson Reuters Mar 27, 2025
Fungi vital to life face growing risk of extinction, study shows
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Nearly a third of species of fungi assessed by an international conservation group are at risk of extinction from threats like deforestation and agricultural expansion...
Thomson Reuters Mar 27, 2025
Putin envoy says Russia could supply a small nuclear power plant for Musk's Mars mission
By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) - Russia could supply a small nuclear power plant for a mission to Mars planned by billionaire entrepreneur and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, President Vladimir Putin's internationa...
Thomson Reuters Mar 27, 2025
Webb telescope spots galaxy at pivotal moment in the early universe
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an important transition period that brou...
Thomson Reuters Mar 26, 2025
Weird Mongolian dinosaur wielded 'big, sharp and nasty' claws
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a cr...
Thomson Reuters Mar 25, 2025




