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Space Pioneer says part of rocket crashed in central China during test
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing Tianbing Technology Co said on Sunday that the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket under development had detached from its launch pad during a test due to structural failu...
Jun 30, 2024
Boeing Starliner's return from space to hinge on weeks of more testing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing's Starliner spacecraft won't return its two astronauts from the International Space Station until after engineers spend "a couple weeks" on testing to investigate the spac...
Jun 28, 2024
Russian scientists conduct autopsy on 44,000-year-old permafrost wolf carcass
YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years, a find they said was the fir...
Jun 28, 2024
Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth's last mammoths
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - About 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth's woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, a melancholy end to one of the world's charisma...
Jun 27, 2024
Russian satellite blasts debris in space, forces ISS astronauts to shelter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Russian satellite believed to be defunct broke apart in Earth's orbit on Wednesday night into over 100 pieces of debris, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station ...
Jun 27, 2024
Study firms up date of famous ancient shipwreck off Cyprus
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When scientists in the 1960s excavated the wreck of an ancient Greek merchant ship off the northern coast of Cyprus, what they found was an amazing time capsule f...
Jun 27, 2024
Musk's SpaceX gets $843 million to help discard International Space Station around 2030
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA on Wednesday said it awarded SpaceX $843 million to build a vehicle capable of pushing the International Space Station into Earth's atmosphere for its planned destruction ar...
Jun 26, 2024
Fossil of child with Down syndrome hints at Neanderthal compassion
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Living among a small band of Neanderthals in what is now eastern Spain was a child, perhaps 6 years old, with Down syndrome, as shown in a remarkable fossil preserving trait...
Jun 26, 2024
Argentina sequences leafhopper genome to battle crop-destroying insect
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine scientific institute has cracked the genome of the leafhopper, the insect which carries the bacteria responsible for wiping out vast swathes of the South American...
Jun 25, 2024
RTX's Collins in talks to drop ISS spacesuit contract with NASA, sources say
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - RTX Corp subsidiary Collins Aerospace is in talks with NASA to back out of its contract to build new spacesuits for astronauts on the International Space Statio...
Jun 25, 2024
