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Rock samples show moon's farside interior is cooler than the nearside
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our plan...
Sep 30, 2025
Ancient Arabian desert rock art showing camels marked water sources
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using...
Sep 30, 2025
French firms to boost capacity to spy from the stratosphere
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -French companies are fine-tuning plans for stratospheric spy balloons and airships as competition heats up in the no man's land between the atmosphere and outer space, t...
Sep 30, 2025
Firefly Alpha rocket booster destroyed in testing mishap
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Firefly Aerospace on Monday said the core booster for its centerpiece Alpha rocket was destroyed during a ground test in Texas, weeks before that rocket was due for a long-awaite...
Sep 29, 2025
The Netherlands returns major fossil collection, including 'Java Man', to Indonesia
THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The Netherlands said it would give back a major fossil collection to Indonesia, granting its former colony's request to recover historical artefacts, including bones of the "Java ...
Sep 26, 2025
Astronomers spot white dwarf that guzzled a Pluto-like world
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to th...
Sep 26, 2025
European Space Agency warns against monopolies as satellite merger looms
By Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) -A senior official from the European Space Agency said mergers could be needed to reach the scale to compete with U.S. and Chinese rivals, but that too much concentr...
Sep 26, 2025
Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new anal...
Sep 25, 2025
Planet Labs to invest eight-figure sum in Berlin satellite production site
BERLIN (Reuters) -California-based Planet Labs plans to set up its first satellite production site outside the U.S. in Berlin, investing an eight-figure sum in the venture that will see the firm doubl...
Sep 25, 2025
To save aging space telescope, NASA taps startup to push it further in space
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, NAS...
Sep 24, 2025
