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Trump's NASA pick to tell Congress about moon race with China, deep-space ambition
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA, will tell senators on Wednesday that he wants to expand investments in nuclear p...
Dec 02, 2025
Damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft to return to Earth uncrewed for inspection
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 1 (Reuters) - China's first crewed spacecraft to be ruled unfit to fly in mid-mission will be sent back to Earth for experts to assess the damage it sustained more clo...
Dec 01, 2025
Scientists solve the mystery of the prehistoric 'Burtele Foot'
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic ...
Nov 28, 2025
Putting Pompeii's pieces together, with the help of a robot
By Matteo Negri POMPEII, Italy (Reuters) -Pompeii's ancient Roman frescoes, shattered and buried for centuries, could get a second life thanks to a pioneering robotic system designed to support archae...
Nov 28, 2025
Baikonur launch pad damaged after Russian Soyuz launch to International Space Station
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, Russian space agenc...
Nov 27, 2025
Genome study reveals milestone in history of cat domestication
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with people around the world. But despite their populari...
Nov 27, 2025
European nations agree 30% boost in three-year space budget
By Cassell Bryan-Low LONDON (Reuters) -European nations agreed on Thursday to increase spending on space over the next three years by about 30% to 22.1 billion euros, part of an effort to try to catch...
Nov 27, 2025
Brazilian physician hails love of paleontology that led to major ancient reptile discovery
By Diego Vara PARAISO DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) -When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could barely imagine his discover...
Nov 27, 2025
Soyuz spacecraft blasts off for International Space Station with Russian and American crew
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board, a live stream of the l...
Nov 27, 2025
South Korea's fourth space rocket launch successful, sends satellites into orbit
(Reuters) -South Korea successfully launched its fourth homegrown space rocket Nuri on Thursday and put more than a dozen satellites into orbit, a live stream on YouTube by Korea Aerospace Research In...
Nov 26, 2025
