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Astronomers observe rings forming around icy celestial body Chiron
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But...
Oct 15, 2025
Musk ally Jared Isaacman in talks to reclaim NASA chief nomination
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) -Jared Isaacman, the private astronaut and Elon Musk ally who was removed from consideration to lead NASA earlier this year, met with acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy th...
Oct 14, 2025
SpaceX completes 11th Starship test before debuting upgraded prototype
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its 11th Starship rocket from Texas on Monday and landed it in the Indian Ocean, the last flight before the company begins test-launc...
Oct 13, 2025
Study shows how solar eclipse made some birds sing like a new day dawned
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse traversed a wide swathe of North America stretching 2,500 miles (4,000 km) from Mexico's Pacific Coast through Texas and ac...
Oct 10, 2025
Coral reef discovered off Naples, in rare find for Mediterranean
ROME (Reuters) -A large white coral reef containing important species and fossil traces has been discovered at a depth of more than 500 metres in the Gulf of Naples, in a rare discovery for the Medite...
Oct 10, 2025
Investors pour record $3.5 billion into space as investors look beyond big names, report says
By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Global space investment hit a record $3.5 billion in the third quarter, driven by a wider range of startups and continued defense spending, according to a report released Fr...
Oct 10, 2025
Astronomers spot young rogue planet gobbling up its surroundings
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all by themselves, called rogue planets. Wh...
Oct 09, 2025
Whirlwind 'dust devils' reveal blustery conditions at Martian surface
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across t...
Oct 08, 2025
Chile's Atacama desert flower could hold key to drought tolerant crops
ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, scientists are studying a small, resilient flower that could hold genetic clues to help crops withstand worsening dro...
Oct 08, 2025
Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi win 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal-organic frameworks", the award-giving body said on We...
Oct 08, 2025
