Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)

By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly...

By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's agricultural research agency Embrapa, which helped turn the country into a leading grains exporter, is preparing a 12-year research program that could do the...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo-based moon exploration company ispace is heartened by signs the United States and Japan will remain on course for joint lunar missions, its CEO said on Wednes...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA on Tuesday swapped out the astronaut capsule it plans to use for an upcoming routine flight to the International Space Station, a scheduling move that will allow a slightly ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A new Chinese carrier rocket designed to send up bigger batches of satellites in one launch made its first flight on Tuesday, boosting Beijing's strategy of countering U.S. billion...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,0...

By Rodrigo Gutierrez and Fabian Cambero CERRO PARANAL, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial devel...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that it had named a new head of Russia's space agency to ensure its ability to develop "dymanically" but rejected the suggestion that his fired predeces...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday removed the head of Russia's space agency after a tenure of less than three years that was scarred by the spectacular failure of Russia's first mission to th...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly compl...