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In prehistoric interbreeding, it was Neanderthal men and Homo sapiens women
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As the...
Feb 26, 2026
Congress to weigh extending space station life, NASA moon base
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee next week will consider extending the planned life of the International Space Station by two years to give companies more time t...
Feb 25, 2026
'Exquisite' fossil of one of the smallest dinosaurs found in Argentina
WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - In Argentina's Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape including fearsome meat-eater Giganotosaurus, at about eight tons, and imm...
Feb 25, 2026
40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to es...
Feb 24, 2026
Congo lakes are releasing ancient carbon, raising climate concerns, study says
By Clement Bonnerot DAKAR, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Two large lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo are releasing carbon that has been locked away for thousands of years in surrounding peatlands, scient...
Feb 24, 2026
NASA may take moon mission Artemis II rocket back to assembly site, affecting March launch window
Feb 21 (Reuters) - NASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Vehicle Assembly Building after observing an interrupted flow of helium, the space ag...
Feb 21, 2026
NASA eyes March 6 launch of astronaut moon mission after passing key test
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - NASA officials on Friday said the agency was targeting March 6 for the launch of four astronauts around the moon and back as part of its Artemis II miss...
Feb 20, 2026
Alien files incoming: Trump orders government release of UFO records
By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would direct federal agencies to begin releasing government files related to aliens and u...
Feb 19, 2026
NASA report recalls dysfunction, heated emotions during Boeing's botched Starliner flight
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday released a sweeping report on Boeing's botched Starliner mission that kept two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station for ...
Feb 19, 2026
A Sahara desert odyssey yields a major dinosaur discovery
By Will Dunham Feb 19 (Reuters) - It was not an easy task for a team of dinosaur-hunting scientists to reach the remote site called Jenguebi in northern Niger deep in the Sahara Desert. It was fitting...
Feb 19, 2026
