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By Will Dunham Oct 14 (Reuters) - A US biotech company says it is making progress toward its goal of resurrecting the dodo, the famous flightless bird with a large hooked beak, and returning it to its native Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, where huma...

WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Wednesday that Elon Musk's SpaceX had restricted "military-grade" Starlink services, hampering Ukrainian drone strike missions and air defenses. The complaint has drawn renewed attention to the distinction...

By Will Dunham Oct 14 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the fossil of a crow-sized bird that lived in China roughly 150 million years ago and possessed undersized wings that may have made it more of a runner than a flier - a discovery that paints ...

By Will Dunham Oct 13 (Reuters) - The partial skull of a tiger-sized predator that prowled what is now the Isle of Wight off England's southern coast about 120 million years ago is giving scientists a better understanding of an enigmatic group of meat-...

Oct 13 (Reuters) - Czech arms maker CSG said ​on Tuesday ‌it had acquired a 9.5% stake in Canada's MDA ‌Space, ​becoming ⁠the satellite ⁠and space technology company's largest shareholder. CSG said the investment ​was its first venture ⁠into ⁠the space...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - While no person has ever set foot on Mars, humankind has managed to conduct extensive explorations of the surface of Earth's planetary neighbor using robotic rovers. One of them, NASA's six-wheeled Persever...

By Cassell Bryan-Low and John Irish PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The shadowing of a Western satellite supporting Ukraine by a cluster of Russian military satellites earlier this year demonstrates capabilities that could threaten commercial constellations s...

By Kate Abnett and Sudarshan Varadhan BRUSSELS/SINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world's leading authority on climate change still can't agree on a timeline to...

By Will Dunham Oct 8 (Reuters) - About 165 million years ago, a furry critter that swam like a platypus, hunted like an otter and had a tail similar to a beaver's frolicked in the lakes and rivers of what is now China pursuing fish and salamanders, the...

Oct 8 (Reuters) - American Airlines said on Thursday it now intends to install SpaceX's ​Starlink satellite internet service ‌on its entire primary fleet of over 1,000 aircraft from next year, extending a plan already in ‌place ​for roughly ⁠half of th...

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump will speak at a White House event on scientific ​discovery on Thursday, according to a ‌social media post from his tech adviser Michael Kratsios. The event will highlight the Tru...

By Marta Serafinko Oct 7 (Reuters) - The world's oldest-known terrestrial animal, an Aldabra giant tortoise named Jonathan and estimated to be about 194 years old, may owe his extraordinary longevity to a combination of genetic traits and an ability to...

By Will Dunham Oct 7 (Reuters) - Scientific teams working separately in Vienna and Beijing have developed the world's first two operating nuclear clocks in what they are calling an important advance in timekeeping that promises wide-ranging practical a...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explor...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that rightly can b...

By Niklas Pollard, Johan Ahlander and Marie Mannes STOCKHOLM, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The Belgian-American Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an Antarctic observatory of ice to detect high-energy neutrinos, elusive subat...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The next mission under NASA's Artemis moon program could still launch next summer as planned, but "anything can happen" given the remaining development work for the two lunar landers needed for the mission...

By Johan Ahlander, Marie Mannes and Bhanvi Satija STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique tha...

By Joe Skipper, Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday with a crew of two US astronauts, a Canadian astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut headed to the International Spa...

By Leo Marchandon and Gianluca Lo Nostro Oct 1 (Reuters) - HyPrSpace has opened its first mass production factory in France, it said on Thursday, targeting 100 rocket engines a year ​as the French space startup gears up for a planned ‌test flight next ...