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Analysis - Taiwanese rocket startup may be early test of Japan's space hub plans
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - A Taiwanese startup aims to become the first foreign firm to launch a rocket from Japan by early next year, part of a plan industry advocates say will aid Tokyo's a...
Thomson Reuters Jul 24, 2024
Analysis-China's secretive spaceplane likely testing 'dual use' technology, experts say
By Gerry Doyle SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's shadowy, uncrewed reusable spacecraft, which launches atop a rocket booster and lands at a secretive military airfield, is most likely testing technology b...
Thomson Reuters Jul 24, 2024
European satellite sector needs to consolidate to compete with Musk, Leonardo exec says
FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - The European satellite sector needs to consolidate in order to keep pace with Elon Musk's rapidly-expanding network of Starlink communications satellites, an executive...
Thomson Reuters Jul 23, 2024
Butchered animal bones indicate earliest human presence in southern South America
By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Fossil bones found in Argentina of a large armadillo relative with cut marks suggestive of butchering indicate humans were present in southern South Americ...
Thomson Reuters Jul 17, 2024
Radar study puts spotlight on Saturn moon Titan's hydrocarbon seas
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which explored Saturn and its icy moons, including the majestic Titan, ended its mission with a death plunge into the giant ringed plan...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2024
Webb telescope reveals wild weather on cosmic brown dwarfs
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The weather report is in for the two brown dwarfs - celestial bodies bigger than a planet but smaller than a star - closest to us. It is inclement, to put it mild...
Thomson Reuters Jul 15, 2024
NASA releases Webb telescope images of a galactic merger
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA released on Friday a pair of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing two galaxies - one nicknamed the Penguin and the other the Egg - in the p...
Thomson Reuters Jul 12, 2024
SpaceX Falcon 9 suffers rare failure in space, imperiling Starlink mission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A second-stage engine on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket suffered a rare malfunction in space during a routine Starlink mission on Thursday night, imperiling the satellites in the comp...
Thomson Reuters Jul 12, 2024
Genome evidence points to plague in Stone Age European population crash
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Around 5,000 years ago, the population in northern Europe collapsed, decimating Stone Age farming communities across the region. The cause of this calamity, called the Neoli...
Thomson Reuters Jul 11, 2024
Musk's Neuralink working on new brain implant device
(Reuters) -Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-chip company, is working on a new device that it believes will require half the number of electrodes to be implanted in the brain to make it more efficient and ...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2024
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