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Three dinosaur fossils from Jurassic period headed for London auction
LONDON (Reuters) - Three dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic period will go under the hammer at a London auction on Thursday, with price estimates of millions of dollars. Christie's is offering the ske...
Thomson Reuters Dec 11, 2024
Firefly Sparkle galaxy offers a taste of the infant Milky Way
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the...
Thomson Reuters Dec 11, 2024
Webb telescope confirms the universe is expanding at an unexpected rate
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unkn...
Thomson Reuters Dec 09, 2024
Europe's Maiaspace steps up effort to counter SpaceX with reusable rocket
By Tim Hepher VERNON, France (Reuters) - In a discreet forest clearing on a plateau above the town of Vernon in Normandy, France, workers adjust a steel cylinder held under giant red claws - part of a...
Thomson Reuters Dec 09, 2024
Europe's Vega-C rocket returns to space after two-year gap
By Giulia Segreti and Tim Hepher (Reuters) - Europe's Arianespace launched the Vega-C rocket on Thursday, marking a return to space for the upgraded Italian launcher two years after it failed during a...
Thomson Reuters Dec 07, 2024
Falling asteroid lights up sky in Russia's remote Yakutia
(Reuters) - An asteroid lit up the sky in Russia's remote far eastern region of Yakutia early on Wednesday, producing a fireball before likely burning up in the atmosphere, officials and scientists sa...
Thomson Reuters Dec 06, 2024
China's first atmospheric monitoring station in Antarctica begins operations
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China said its first atmospheric monitoring station in Antarctica started operations this week, a move aimed at helping observe changes on the southern continent and supporting t...
Thomson Reuters Dec 06, 2024
Global earth observation market to cross $8 billion by 2033, says Novaspace
BENGALURU (Reuters) - The global Earth Observation (EO) market is on track to exceed $8 billion in valuation by 2033 from $5 billion currently, according to a new report from Novaspace, the merger of ...
Thomson Reuters Dec 06, 2024
Feces and vomit fossils offer evidence explaining dinosaur supremacy
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, triggering a horrific mass extinction. But the way the ...
Thomson Reuters Dec 06, 2024
China scientists rush to climate-proof potatoes
By Mei Mei Chu, Florence Lo and Xiaoyu Yin YANQING, China (Reuters) - In a research facility in the northwest of Beijing, molecular biologist Li Jieping and his team harvest a cluster of seven unusual...
Thomson Reuters Dec 06, 2024




