Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
China sends its youngest astronaut to 'Heavenly Palace' space station
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launc...
Oct 31, 2025
SpaceX pitches NASA 'simplified' Starship moon landing plan amid progress concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday said it proposed to NASA a simplified plan to send humans to the moon using its Starship rocket, as the agency presses its contractors to move more...
Oct 30, 2025
Agile and vicious Nanotyrannus was not just a teenage T. rex
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, an agile and vicious predator named Nanotyrannus prowled western North America, resembling a smaller version of Tyrannosau...
Oct 30, 2025
Satellite maker EnduroSat gets $104 million funding from Google Ventures, others
By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -EnduroSat said on Thursday it has raised $104 million from investors, including Google Ventures, Lux Capital and the European Investment Council, as the Bulgaria-based compa...
Oct 30, 2025
China plans to have a Pakistan astronaut on short-term missions
BEIJING (Reuters) -China has announced it will arrange for a Pakistan astronaut to perform short-term missions as part of China's space station missions, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The...
Oct 29, 2025
Quiet supersonic X-59 jet soars over California in unofficial first test flight
By Steve Gorman PALMDALE, California (Reuters) -NASA's X-59 supersonic-but-quiet jet airplane soared over the Southern California desert on Tuesday in the first test flight of an experimental aircraft...
Oct 28, 2025
Analysis-Europe's new space merger explores the FOMO frontier
By Tim Hepher, Mathieu Rosemain and Elvira Pollina PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) -Driven to the brink by Elon Musk's SpaceX, Europe's biggest satellite firms are setting aside longtime rivalries in a do-or-d...
Oct 24, 2025
New Mexico fossils show dinosaurs thriving just before annihilation
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fossil site in New Mexico with numerous dinosaurs, including the gargantuan Alamosaurus, dates to shortly before the asteroid strike that abruptly ended the age...
Oct 24, 2025
Wyoming dinosaur 'mummies' reveal a surprise: hoofed feet
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two fossilized "mummies" unearthed by scientists in the badlands of Wyoming of the duckbilled dinosaur Edmontosaurus reveal the external anatomy in exquisite detai...
Oct 23, 2025
ESA says it will study impact of new satellite merger
PARIS (Reuters) -The European Space Agency said on Thursday it would study a newly announced satellite combination between three aerospace groups to ensure that it preserved a competitive landscape. D...
Oct 23, 2025
