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China launches first satellites of constellation to rival Starlink, newspaper reports
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese state-owned enterprise on Monday launched the first batch of satellites for a megaconstellation designed to rival U.S. company Space X's Starlink's ne...
Thomson Reuters Aug 05, 2024
Meteorite impacts identified as driver of moon's tenuous atmosphere
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON Reuters) - The NASA astronauts who became the first people to land on the moon's surface in the 1960s and 1970s also discovered a previously unknown lunar characteristic - it...
Thomson Reuters Aug 02, 2024
Ancient Egypt's 'screaming' mummy woman may have died in agony
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in w...
Thomson Reuters Aug 02, 2024
Primordial spiny slug from China was forerunner of world's mollusks
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth's roughly 76,000 species of mollusks come in an impressive variety of forms including clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, slugs and even some possess...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2024
Spanish lab sterilises mosquitoes as climate change fuels spread of dengue fever
By Eva Manez and Horaci Garcia NAQUERA, Spain (Reuters) - A Spanish laboratory is breeding and sterilising thousands of tiger mosquitoes to fight dengue fever and other diseases as climate change enco...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2024
NASA images unlock complex history of two near-Earth asteroids
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the moments before NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a landmark planetary defense test in 2022, it took high-resolution images of t...
Thomson Reuters Jul 30, 2024
Leonardo in talks with EU peers over space unit
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Leonardo is in ongoing talks with European peers over the organisation and governance of its space division, the state-controlled group said in slides prepared for its half-ye...
Thomson Reuters Jul 30, 2024
Airbus plans Space Systems restructuring as consolidation talks continue
PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus is drawing up a new turnaround plan for its Space Systems business, industry sources said, adding talks over potential European consolidation to fend off competition include I...
Thomson Reuters Jul 29, 2024
SpaceX, NASA to launch Crew-9 mission next month
(Reuters) - SpaceX and NASA said on Friday they plan to launch the space agency's Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station no earlier than Aug. 18. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Ed...
Thomson Reuters Jul 26, 2024
Climate change causing more change in rainfall, fiercer typhoons, scientists say
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Climate change is driving changes in rainfall patterns across the world, scientists said in a paper published on Friday, which could also be intensifying typhoon...
Thomson Reuters Jul 25, 2024




