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Firefly aims for up to $6 billion valuation in US IPO after bumping up price range
(Reuters) -Firefly is targeting a valuation of up to $6.04 billion in its U.S. listing, the company said in a filing on Monday, raising its pricing range amid heightened interest in space companies. T...
Aug 04, 2025
SpaceX launches joint astronaut crew to ISS in NASA's Crew-11 mission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An international crew of four astronauts launched toward the International Space Station from Florida on Friday aboard a SpaceX rocket, beating gloomy weather to embark on a rout...
Aug 01, 2025
Evolutionary origins of the potato revealed - and a tomato was involved
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before spreading globally from the 16th...
Aug 01, 2025
Europe is breaking its reliance on American science
By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and Sarah Marsh BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON/BERLIN, August 1 (Reuters) -European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United...
Aug 01, 2025
Ancient pre-Hispanic grave unearthed under residential Lima street
LIMA (Reuters) -Human remains pointing to a 1,000-year-old pre-Hispanic cemetery were unearthed in northern Lima by workers digging under the Peruvian capital to install a gas pipeline, an archaeologi...
Jul 31, 2025
Astronauts set for launch to ISS as US, Russian space chiefs plan rare meeting
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The heads of NASA and Russia's space agency will watch American, Russian, and Japanese astronauts launch to the International Space Station from Florida on Thurs...
Jul 31, 2025
Italy's opposition warns against involving SpaceX in satellite update
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -Italy's main opposition Democratic Party (PD) has warned Giorgia Meloni's ruling coalition against involving Elon Musk's SpaceX in the update of a satellite programme,...
Jul 31, 2025
Chile takes new steps to save endangered Darwin's frog
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile has launched a new effort to save the endangered Darwin's frog, a tiny amphibian with leaf-like skin whose males carry tadpoles within pouches in their mouths. The initiative...
Jul 31, 2025
A 'vibrant oasis' of chemical-eating creatures found in the deep Pacific
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Scientists diving to astounding depths in two oceanic trenches in the northwest Pacific have discovered thriving communities of marine creatures that get their sustenance not...
Jul 30, 2025
India launches NASA-ISRO satellite to track climate threats from space
BENGALURU (Reuters) -India launched on Wednesday a $1.5 billion, first-of-its-kind radar imaging satellite built in collaboration with NASA, deploying it to help enhance global monitoring of climate c...
Jul 30, 2025
