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By Daniel Fastenberg (Reuters) - Scary Joro spiders the size of a human hand are spreading across the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and heading north. The East Asian species is named after the mythical Japane...

(Reuters) - Virgin Galactic flew four tourists to the edge of space and back aboard its spaceplane, marking the second flight this year, the Richard Branson-founded company said on Saturday. The Galac...

By Steve Gorman and Peter Cooney (Reuters) - Retired astronaut William Anders, one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, who captured the "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission, died ...

By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - For the first time farmed aquatic production has exceeded the catch from traditional captured fisheries, the U.N. food and agriculture agency said on Friday, unders...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of horse-based transportation represented one of the seminal moments for humankind, connecting ancient peoples by enabling them to move quickly over lo...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stars about the size of our sun are not the most common ones in the Milky Way. Much smaller stars are way more common - and those host the most rocky planets in t...

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special uranium fuel planned for use in next-generation U.S. nuclear reactors poses security risks because it can be used without further enrichment for use...

By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - Boeing's Starliner capsule faces a crucial test on Thursday when it is expected to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on the spacecraft's first trip to orbit ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-based rocket developer Space Pioneer said on Thursday that it had completed more than 1.5 billion yuan ($207 million) round of fundraising that will go towards financing th...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Chang'e-6 probe succesfully transferred on Thursday samples it collected from the moon's far side to a spacecraft in lunar orbit, state news agency Xinhua reported. After r...