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Trump NASA nominee says agency will prioritize Mars mission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA will tell senators on Wednesday that the agency will prioritize a Mars mission, while noting that most U.S space programs are over budg...
Apr 08, 2025
Russian spacecraft docks with the ISS, Roscosmos says
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -A Russian Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, carrying Russian cosmonauts Russians Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA's Jonathan Kim, has docked with the ISS, Russia's s...
Apr 08, 2025
Spacecraft carrying Russians and American takes off from Baikonur cosmodrome
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday en route to the International Space Station (ISS...
Apr 08, 2025
Trump's NASA nominee backs US moon program in talks with lawmakers, sources say
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA has assured lawmakers that returning astronauts to the moon would remain the agency's main strategy, quelling concerns that ...
Apr 07, 2025
Study strengthens link between maternal diabetes and autism
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -A large new study adds to evidence that diabetes during pregnancy is linked with an increased risk of brain and nervous system problems in children, including autism, researc...
Apr 07, 2025
Astronomers spot two white dwarfs doomed to die in a quadruple detonation
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily vi...
Apr 07, 2025
Exclusive-SpaceX, ULA expected to clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program
By Marisa Taylor and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of do...
Apr 04, 2025
SpaceX's private Fram2 crew returns to Earth after polar-orbiting mission
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four private astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Friday, after roughly four days orbiting Earth in a novel polar trajectory, capping the Elon Mus...
Apr 04, 2025
Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable t...
Apr 04, 2025
Venture Global says it exported 29 cargoes from Plaquemines LNG plant in Q1
(Reuters) - U.S. liquefied natural gas developer Venture Global exported 29 cargoes from its Plaquemines facility in Louisiana during the first quarter of 2025, the company said in a regulatory filing...
Apr 03, 2025
