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MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuters) - A Soyuz ​MS-28 ‌spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov ‌and ​Sergei ⁠Mikayev as ⁠well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams ​has returned ⁠to ⁠earth, Russia's ​Roscosmos space ​agency said on ‌Sunday. T...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - SpaceX's Starship rocket lifted off from Texas on Friday and briefly put its first 20 upgraded Starlink internet satellites into suborbital space, the company's 13th test mission as it aims to begin rout...

By Marta Serafinko July 24 (Reuters) - High up on volcano summits, the Andean leaf-eared mouse is showing how life can thrive in places where humans cannot. This plucky rodent, according to researchers, has evolved an unusual mix of metabolic and genet...

By Will Dunham July 23 (Reuters) - Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had difficulty deciphering their evolution as a group. Now, a well-preserved fossil from sou...

By Antonio Bronic MLJET, Croatia, July 23 (Reuters) - A Byzantine-era ship discovered more than a decade ago on the seabed off Croatia's southern coast was probably carrying a high-ranking person and ​his entourage, judging by the gold jewellery found...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is so starkly dissimilar to our own solar system that they are struggling to find the proper terminology to describe it. The syste...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - Unlike our sun, most of the largest stars in the cosmos are not solo acts, but rather are born together with another star in what is called a binary system, destined to spend their lives gravitationally bo...

By Joe Brock FARNBOROUGH, England, July 20 (Reuters) - NASA remains on track for next year's Artemis III mission, a key test of orbital docking and lunar landers needed for future crewed moon landings, despite an explosion involving an unmanned Blue Or...

July 19 (Reuters) - SpaceX is targeting Thursday, July 23, for another attempt to launch its Starship rocket, the company said ​in a statement on Sunday. SpaceX CEO ‌Elon Musk initially posted on X that the next Starship launch would occur on Friday. H...

SHANGHAI, July 18 - Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan Space Technology Co. on Saturday said it had ​launched the first constellation ‌of a space-computing project that in total aims to deploy 1,000 satellites in space. • Space-based computing means processing ...

By Gopika Gopakumar and Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU, July 18 (Reuters) - Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace on Saturday launched the country's first privately developed orbital rocket, a key test of national efforts to compete for a bigger sha...

WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - SpaceX's Starship rocket triggered a last-second abort before liftoff for its 13th flight test from Texas ​on Thursday as some of its ‌33 engines failed to start, with CEO Elon Musk saying it will likely try to launch ag...

CERRO PACHON, CHILE, July 15 (Reuters) - Perched atop a mountain in Chile's Coquimbo region, where some of the world's darkest skies stretch over the Andes, a giant observatory has ​begun filming the infinite to create the first movie of ‌the universe....

By Susanna Twidale HARWICH, England, July 15 (Reuters) - An international team of around 80 scientists and crew will set sail on polar research ship the RSS David Attenborough for Greenland this week to investigate whether the island's rapidly ​melting...

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Russia launched two cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station on Tuesday from Kazakhstan, resuming crewed flights from ​a recently repaired launchpad with a rare joint ‌attendance by the hea...

BERLIN, July 14 (Reuters) - German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Tuesday urged timetable and budget discipline for a planned military ​satellite project valued at 10 billion ‌euros ($11.45 billion), saying delays were unacceptable given current t...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday closed its review into a SpaceX Starship booster's return failure that occurred during a flight test in May, clearing the way for Elon Musk's company to...

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China on Friday successfully tested an experimental rocket retrieval system using a net attached to a sea platform, state media reported, in the hope of breaking U.S. dominance in reusable rockets. The Long March 10B rocket...

By Steve Gorman July 9 (Reuters) - Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training with 12 other American women at the dawn of the Space Age, has died in Texas at...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - In about 5 billion years, our sun will begin its death throes by expanding in size and engulfing the innermost planets - possibly including Earth - before expelling its outer layers and forming a stellar re...