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Sept 18 (Reuters) - NASA is in talks with Boeing about using the aerospace manufacturer's Starliner vehicle to handle new missions, the Wall Street Journal ​reported on Friday. The discussion pertains to Starliner ‌handling 10 or more new flights in th...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - NASA said Friday that the agency had given SpaceX a $946 million contract to fly three more astronaut missions to the International Space Station, extending ​the company's crewed flights to the station through ‌2030. The deal brings...

By Jeffrey Dastin and Michael Erman SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI a...

By Marta Serafinko Sept 17 (Reuters) - A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described in more than a ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Even before the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached its planned orbital position, NASA says its newest flagship observatory's potential operational lifespan may reach 22 years - more than double ...

By Akash Sriram and Mariam Sunny Sept 17 (Reuters) - As the International Space Station nears the end of its operational life, drugmakers are laying the groundwork for commercial pharmaceutical research and manufacturing in low Earth orbit, while worki...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Using chemical clues in Tyrannosaurus rex teeth, scientists have shown that this massive predator was warm-blooded - with a body temperature close to that of a person - in a finding they said should prompt...

By Will Dunham Sept 16 (Reuters) - New research based on satellite data going back to the 1970s has documented major polar ice losses in Greenland and Antarctica - home to Earth's two great ice sheets - that have contributed to rising global sea levels...

(Corrects valuation in bullet 1 and paragraph 2) By Akash Sriram Sept 16 (Reuters) - Impulse Space has raised $308 million in an extension of the Series D funding round, the startup building ​spacecraft to move satellites and other payloads said on Wed...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Scientists have transplanted laboratory-grown human brain tissue into bioengineered mice in what they call an important advance for studying human brain development that may speed research into the causes ...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - SpaceX said on Tuesday it was preparing to launch its next Starship flight test ​as soon as September 22, ‌a mission expected to send the vehicle into orbit for the first time and deploy Starlink V3 satellites. Starship's 14th test ...

By Will Dunham Sept 15 (Reuters) - Augustus, ancient Rome's first emperor, placed a gilded monument called the Milliarium Aureum, or Golden Milestone, in the Roman Forum in 20 BC to mark the symbolic starting point for all roads in the sprawling empire...

LUSAKA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - African wild dogs can travel more than 4,000 km (2,500 miles) across the continent to find mates, according to new research that suggests the endangered species' surviving populations are more ​interconnected than previously...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - Spanish paleontologists say they have found the first evidence that Diplodocus, the iconic long-necked ​dinosaur, once roamed Europe, according ‌to research published on Tuesday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Researchers...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - SpaceX's new Starfall business of returning products and other payloads from Earth's orbit has signed a mission deal with integrator Space Cargo as the unit's first customer, the company's Chief Executiv...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A California-based astrophysicist presented a new theory on Monday to explain why Venus, the planet most like Earth in size, mass and structure, lacks its own moon. Call it a case of celestial cannibalis...

Sept 10 (Reuters) - Italian rocket maker Avio said on Thursday its first-half adjusted core earnings rose 7.3% from ​a year earlier, as it ‌pursues its expansion in the United States and ramps up launcher production. Avio is currently setting up a soli...

By Gianluca Lo Nostro Sept 10 (Reuters) - Satellite operator Eutelsat said on Thursday it will replenish and expand its OneWeb network through 2034 after the Franco-British operator signed ​a deal with Airbus for 229 additional low Earth ‌orbit satelli...

Sept 10 (Reuters) - Belgium's Aerospacelab said on Thursday it had won a €2.4 billion ($2.8 billion) contract to build ​264 satellites for the European Union's IRIS² ‌network, which is due to offer secure communications for governments, security agenci...

By Florence Loeve PARIS, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Europe must ensure its countries' competing satellite programmes can work together effectively and do not duplicate each other, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher said on Thursday. He wa...