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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...
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...
Jul 25, 2024
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jul 12, 2024
