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China hands over satellite ground station to Namibia, state media reports
BEIJING, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Chinese officials on Thursday handed over a satellite ground station to Namibia outside the southern African nation's capital Windhoek, Chinese state media reported, markin...
Feb 13, 2026
Study unlocks the secrets of the whiskers on an elephant's trunk
By Will Dunham Feb 13 (Reuters) - An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the...
Feb 13, 2026
Musk fires up SpaceX, Bezos pushes Blue Origin as US billionaires race China to moon
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk's SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin's ambi...
Feb 13, 2026
SpaceX launches 12th long-duration crew to International Space Station
By Steve Nesius and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida early on Friday with a crew of two U.S. NASA astronauts, a French astronaut ...
Feb 13, 2026
France-backed Eutelsat reports stronger revenue in Starlink push
By Gianluca Lo Nostro PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Eutelsat on Friday reported better-than-expected revenue, bolstered by efforts from France to advance plans for a European competitor to Elon Musk's Sta...
Feb 13, 2026
Europe's Ariane 64 heavy launcher puts Amazon satellites in orbit
PARIS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Europe launched the first of a larger new version of its Ariane 6 rocket on Thursday, propelling 32 satellites for Amazon to low Earth orbit. Lift-off took place at 1:45 p.m....
Feb 12, 2026
Astronomers observe a star that quietly transformed into a black hole
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants collapsing to form an exceptionally dense objec...
Feb 12, 2026
Rocket maker Orbex to enter administration, FT reports
Feb 11 (Reuters) - Rocket maker Orbex will enter administration after takeover talks with European space start-up The Exploration Company failed, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Reuters cou...
Feb 11, 2026
Eutelsat secures 1 billion euros financing for Oneweb Satellite Procurement
Feb 11 (Reuters) - Eutelsat has secured about 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in export credit financing to fund the procurement of low Earth orbit satellites for its OneWeb constellation, it said on W...
Feb 11, 2026
Canadian fossil reveals one of the first plant-eating animals
By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known plant-eati...
Feb 10, 2026
