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NASA sets launch date for SpaceX U.S. manned mission to space station
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - NASA on Friday set a launch date of May 27 for its first astronaut mission from U.S. soil in nearly ten years. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted that billionaire ...
Apr 17, 2020
Coronavirus forces detour for homecoming astronauts
ALMATY (Reuters) - NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir will take an unusual - and more exhausting - route home after safely landing in the Kazakh steppe on Friday, a Russian healthcare offi...
Apr 17, 2020
Chile astronomers discover star dancing according to Einstein´s century-old theory
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Astronomers in Chile using one of the world's largest telescopes have found a star "dancing" around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted more...
Apr 16, 2020
‘Stink flirting’ is a thing – just ask a ring-tailed lemur
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For human beings, "stink flirting" may not sound like a prudent dating strategy. For ring-tailed lemurs, it is the way to go. Scientists on Thursday described the...
Apr 16, 2020
Scientists enthralled by biggest star explosion ever observed
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the biggest supernova - stellar explosion - ever detected, the violent death of a huge star up to 100 times more massive than our sun in ...
Apr 14, 2020
Space scientists use COVID-19 lockdown as dry run for Mars mission
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - French space scientists are using the COVID-19 lockdown as a dry run for what it will be like to be cooped up inside a space craft on a mission to Mars. The guinea pigs in...
Apr 14, 2020
Cigar-shaped interstellar trespasser may be fragment of wrecked planet
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A reddish-colored cigar-shaped interstellar object called 'Oumuamua that is tumbling through our solar system may be wreckage from a planet ripped apart when it r...
Apr 14, 2020
Ancient string provides further evidence of Neanderthals talents
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Neanderthals used plant fibers to create string more than 40,000 years ago at a site in France where they hunted reindeer, further evidence according to scientist...
Apr 09, 2020
Atomic bombs and whale sharks: How to calculate age of world’s largest fish
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out how to calculate the age of whale sharks - Earth's largest fish - with some guidance from the radioactive fallout spawned by Cold War-...
Apr 08, 2020
Russian space agency says Trump paving way to seize other planets
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, accused Donald Trump on Tuesday of creating a basis to take over other planets by signing an executive order outlining U.S. policy on commercial...
Apr 07, 2020
