Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
Black hole continues to belch years after chewing up a star
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Scientists are observing the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is displaying exceptionally messy eating habits. Primarily using radio telescopes i...
Feb 05, 2026
Crypto exchange Gemini plans to lay off up to 200 staff, exit Europe and Australia
By Prakhar Srivastava Feb 5 (Reuters) - Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, said on Thursday it plans to cut up to 200 jobs globally and focus op...
Feb 05, 2026
Pentagon asked to probe SpaceX for potential Chinese ownership
By Echo Wang and Joey Roulette Feb 5 (Reuters) - Two Democratic U.S. senators urged the Pentagon on Thursday to conduct an immediate review of SpaceX amid allegations that Chinese investors have secre...
Feb 05, 2026
Starlink fuels SpaceX growth with potential phone, more internet services
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - With a SpaceX IPO expected this year, the company has plans for its revenue-generating Starlink business that could expand its reach into new markets, in...
Feb 05, 2026
Firefighters tackle blaze at German science research centre
By Tilman Blasshofer DARMSTADT, Germany, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Around 130 firefighters were battling a blaze on Thursday at a scientific research centre in southwestern Germany that a spokesperson for the...
Feb 05, 2026
NASA's Juno finds Jupiter is a tiny bit smaller than previously thought
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever so small an amount - as scien...
Feb 04, 2026
Musk's mega-merger of SpaceX and xAI bets on sci-fi future of data centers in space
By Akash Sriram and Joey Roulette Feb 4 (Reuters) - Seventy-five years ago, the idea of harnessing the power of the skies was little more than fantasy spun by futurists like Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac...
Feb 04, 2026
Amazon's AWS CEO calls orbital data centers 'pretty far' from reality
By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Amazon's top cloud computing executive said space-based data centers are "pretty far" from being a reality, even as a number of startups and the comp...
Feb 03, 2026
NASA's Artemis II moon mission slips to March
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - NASA pushed its Artemis II mission to March after wrapping up a launch rehearsal that uncovered issues with the massive Space Launch System rocket's fuel...
Feb 03, 2026
SpaceX grounds Falcon 9 flights after second-stage issue
By Joey Roulette Feb 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket over an unspecified issue that its second stage experienced after successfully deploying Starl...
Feb 03, 2026
