Keyword "PACKAGE:US-SCIENCE" - List of latest news (108 results)

13:11 China lunar chief accuses US of interfering in joint space programmes

The chief designer of China's lunar exploration programme accused the United States on Wednesday of interfering in Beijing's pushes to cooperate with Europe and other foreign partners in space programmes.

01:50 Planet with comet-like tail observed disintegrating near its star

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust up to about 5.6 million miles (9 million km) long.

18/04 Luke Skywalker's planet orbited two stars. How about brown dwarfs instead?

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars.

17/04 NASA rover finds fresh evidence of the warm and wet past of Mars

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it boasted substantial bodies of water and potentially harbored life.

17/04 Science caught in crossfire of Trump's fight with universities

Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, who works where medicine and engineering meet, saw federal funding for some of his projects frozen this week as his university clashed with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

14/04 Katy Perry launches into space with all-female crew on Blue Origin rocket

Pop star Katy Perry and five other women launched into space on a Blue Origin rocket and successfully returned to Earth on Monday, marking the first all-female spaceflight in more than 60 years.

11/04 Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its lifespan, becoming what is called a red giant.

11/04 Space startups face uncertainty as US cuts federal spending, report says

U.S. federal budget cuts have started to have some early impact on space startups after funding for such companies dropped 12.5% in the first quarter, according to investment firm Seraphim Space.

10/04 Jawbone from Taiwan shows geographic reach of enigmatic archaic humans

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this enigmatic lineage of archaic humans once inhabited a vast expanse in eastern Eurasia in environments ranging from cold and arid to warm and humid.

10/04 What are atmospheric rivers and why do they cause flooding?

Atmospheric rivers are storms akin to rivers in the sky that dump massive amounts of rain and can cause flooding, trigger mudslides and result in loss of life and enormous property damage.

09/04 Scientists produce painstaking wiring diagram of a mouse's brain

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement that could offer insight into how the human brain works.

09/04 Moon vs Mars: Trump's NASA pick faces tough questions on agency's future

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead NASA, entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, faced questions from senators on Wednesday about on how to balance Trump's focus on reaching Mars with the U.S. space agency's flagship moon program.

09/04 US company resurrects the extinct dire wolf, or some version of it

The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout and a skull more robust than those of modern wolves. The species went extinct along with many others as the Ice Age ended.

08/04 Study strengthens link between maternal diabetes and autism

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, researchers say.

07/04 Astronomers spot two white dwarfs doomed to die in a quadruple detonation

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple detonation.

05/04 SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin clinch $13.5 billion-dollar Pentagon launch contracts

Elon Musk's SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Friday won U.S. Space Force rocket launch contracts worth a combined $13.5 billion through 2029 to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive and complex satellites into space.

04/04 Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage

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 to China or the United States. But it has not always been so inhospitable.

02/04 Isle of Skye footprints give a tranquil snapshot of dinosaur life

It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history. The Isle of Skye's rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart - known as Bonnie Prince Charlie - arrived by boat disguised as a maid to hide from the English in 1746 after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden.

01/04 NASA astronauts from Starliner mission readjust to Earth, resume work with Boeing

After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on the International Space Station.

01/04 SpaceX launches private astronaut crew in Fram2 polar-orbiting mission

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before.

28/03 Tomb of unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh discovered

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in Egypt's history.

27/03 Webb telescope spots galaxy at pivotal moment in the early universe

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an important transition period that brought the early universe out of its "dark ages" occurred sooner than previously thought.

22/03 Swiss scientists hope to save biggest glacier in the Alps even as ice loss accelerates

The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although significant ice loss is now inevitable.

08/03 US FAA says 240 flights disrupted by explosion of Musk's SpaceX Starship

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that the previous day's explosion of a SpaceX Starship spacecraft disrupted about 240 flights, with space debris concerns requiring more than two dozen of those planes to divert.

08/03 Butterfly populations plummet by 22% in US since turn of century

The population of butterflies - the beautiful insects that play a vital role in pollination and the health of ecosystems - has fallen in the United States by more than a fifth this century, according to research spanning hundreds of species from the red admiral butterfly to the American lady to the cabbage white.

07/03 US startup's moonshot apparently lands on its side - again

The second moon landing by Intuitive Machines appears to have suffered the same fate as its first try last year.

07/03 SpaceX Starship failure prompts diversions, Florida airports ground stops

Departures at Florida airports were delayed by an average of 45 minutes due to the SpaceX incident.

07/03 SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, again raining debris over Caribbean

The back-to-back mishaps indicate serious setbacks for a program Elon Musk has sought to speed up this year.

04/03 Musk's SpaceX to invest $1.8 billion in Florida for Starship program expansion

SpaceX is planning to invest at least $1.8 billion to build new Starship launchpads and processing facilities on Florida's Space Coast, eyeing a key expansion for the rocket program beyond Texas amid pending environmental reviews, according to the state's governor.

23/01 Where did dinosaurs first evolve? Scientists have an answer

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, with its Freddy Krueger-like claws. But the origin of dinosaurs - precisely when and where they first appeared - remains a bit of a puzzle.

21/01 Astronomers detect ferocious jet-stream winds on alien planet

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The comparable high-altitude winds on Neptune reach about 1,200 miles (2,000 km) per hour. Those, however, are a mere breeze compared to the jet-stream winds on a planet called WASP-127b.

21/01 Lonestar's moonshot: Firm aims to place data center on lunar surface

Lonestar Data Holdings is reaching for the moon in its quest to place the first physical data center on the lunar landscape.

21/01 Great white shark's 9-million-year-old ancestor found in Peru

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines.

18/01 US FAA probes reports of SpaceX rocket debris landing in Turks and Caicos

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and officials from the Turks and Caicos Islands have launched probes into SpaceX's explosive Starship rocket test that sent debris streaking over the northern Caribbean and forced airlines to divert dozens of flights.

18/01 Pakistan launches first home-made observation satellite

Pakistan launched its first home-made observation satellite on Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China, Pakistan's space agency said.

17/01 Ancient Pompeii excavation uncovers lavish private bath complex

Archaeologists have unearthed a lavish private bath complex in Pompeii, highlighting the wealth and grandeur of the ancient Roman city before it was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the site said on Friday.

17/01 SpaceX plans to send five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years, Musk says

SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years, CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday in a post on social media platform X.

17/01 SpaceX Starship prototype fails in space after Texas launch

A SpaceX Starship prototype failed in space on Thursday minutes after launching from its rocket facilities in Texas, cutting short a test mission that was to include a debut attempt to deploy satellites.

16/01 Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to determine when meat consumption began and who did it.

16/01 Blue Origin's debut New Glenn rocket fully fueled for next launch attempt

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin filled its New Glenn rocket with propellants on Thursday morning for its debut launch from Florida, the company's second attempt this week to get the rocket in space and kick start its rivalry with SpaceX in the satellite launch market.

16/01 India's ISRO carries out successful space docking mission

India on Thursday became the fourth nation in the world to achieve space docking, a technological milestone that underscores its ambitions to expand its share in the rapidly growing $400 billion global space market.

15/01 Space startup funding set for boost from US-China rivalry in 2025, report says

Funding in the space industry is set to receive a boost this year from growing U.S.-China tensions, after startups in the sector clocked $8.6 billion in investments in 2024, according to a report by investment firm Seraphim Space.

15/01 Japan's ispace, US's Firefly launch commercial moon landers

Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on Wednesday with SpaceX's unusual double moonshot launch, underscoring the global rush to examine the lunar surface.

14/01 Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - with a death wish.

14/01 Australian scientists discover bigger species of deadly funnel web spiders

Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest.

14/01 Bezos' Blue Origin calls off New Glenn launch again, eyes Thursday

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin moved the launch of its New Glenn rocket from Tuesday to Thursday, Jan. 16, further pushing back its inaugural attempt to reach orbit and compete with SpaceX in the satellite launch market.

13/01 Bezos' Blue Origin prepares for debut New Glenn rocket launch

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin prepared for the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket from Florida early on Monday, nearing a pivotal debut in Earth orbit that will mark a major step towards a long-awaited goal of competing with Elon Musk's SpaceX in the satellite launch market.

10/01 Wild chimpanzees adapt genetically to different habitats

Wild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah areas. And these close cousins of our species, according to new research, have developed intriguing genetic adaptations tailored to their habitats - including to pathogens like malaria.

06/01 India delays space docking experiment, saying more work needed

India postponed by a couple of days on Monday a highly-anticipated space docking experiment that would see it become the fourth country in the world to achieve a feat essential for expanding future deep space exploratory missions.

27/12 NASA spacecraft 'safe' after closest-ever approach to Sun

NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was "safe" and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the Sun by any human-made object.

24/12 NASA spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to the sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe was expected to make history on Tuesday by flying into the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth's closest star.

23/12 Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in Siberian permafrost

Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years.

23/12 South Korean team develops ‘Iron Man’ robot that helps paraplegics walk

South Korean researchers have developed a lightweight wearable robot that can walk up to paraplegic users and lock itself onto them, enabling them to walk, manoeuvre obstacles and climb staircases.

20/12 'Amphibious mouse' among 27 new species discovered in Peru's Amazon

An "amphibious mouse" with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to Peru's Amazon, according to Conservation International.

18/12 Chile's giant 'living fossil' frog faces threat from climate change and humans

A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a "living fossil" is now losing ground in its native Chile as climate change and human intervention damage its habitat.

18/12 Japan's Space One Kairos rocket fails minutes after liftoff

Space One aborted its second bid to become the country's first company to deliver a satellite to the Earth's orbit.

17/12 Exclusive: Power failed at SpaceX mission control before September spacewalk by NASA nominee

The spacewalk was carried out by private astronauts including Jared Isaacman, a fellow billionaire and longtime Musk partner who is now nominated by President-elect Trump to be administrator of NASA.

17/12 Japan, India startups to study laser-equipped satellite to tackle space debris

Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly imminent problem of orbital congestion.

14/12 To rival SpaceX’s Starship, ULA eyes Vulcan rocket upgrade

Boeing and Lockheed Martin's joint rocket venture, United Launch Alliance (ULA), plans to upgrade a version of its Vulcan rocket to challenge SpaceX's Starship in the low Earth orbit satellite launch market, the company's CEO said.

13/12 Security concerns spur New Zealand to regulate who can monitor satellites

The New Zealand government said on Friday it will pass legislation next year to prevent entities that "do not share the country’s values" from using it as a base to monitor satellites.

12/12 Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.

11/12 Firefly Sparkle galaxy offers a taste of the infant Milky Way

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the bioluminescent bugs - in a discovery that is giving astronomers a peek at what our Milky Way may have looked like in its infancy.

09/12 Europe's Maiaspace steps up effort to counter SpaceX with reusable rocket

In a discreet forest clearing on a plateau above the town of Vernon in Normandy, France, workers adjust a steel cylinder held under giant red claws - part of a reusable rocket that Europe hopes will slow the meteoric rise of Elon Musk's SpaceX.

05/12 New York museum unveils 'Apex' - an almost complete Stegosaurus

The American Museum of Natural History revealed the identity of its latest resident on Thursday - "Apex," one of the most complete specimens ever discovered of the plant-eating dinosaur Stegosaurus, known for the upright plates on its back and a spiky tail.

05/12 Europe's Vega-C rocket returns to space after two-year gap

Europe's Arianespace launched the Vega-C rocket on Thursday, marking a return to space for the upgraded Italian launcher two years after it failed during a debut commercial mission.

05/12 NASA announces further delays Artemis moon missions

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced on Thursday new delays in the U.S. space agency's Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, pushing back the next two planned missions including the lunar landing.

04/12 Mammoths topped the menu for North American Ice Age people

The first humans who spread across North America during the last Ice Age put mammoths at the top of their menu, according to scientists who secured the first direct evidence of the diet of these ancient people.

04/12 Falling asteroid lights up sky in Russia's remote Yakutia

An asteroid lit up the sky in Russia's remote far eastern region of Yakutia early on Wednesday, producing a fireball before likely burning up in the atmosphere, officials and scientists said.

03/12 Amazon announces new slate of AI models

Amazon announced a new slate of artificial intelligence platforms, known as foundation models, at its annual AWS conference, allowing for text, image and video generation among other things.

03/12 Space firms plot new European satellite venture to take on Starlink as job cuts loom

Europe's Airbus , Thales and Leonardo are exploring plans to set up a new joint space company as they look to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink.

03/12 China's first atmospheric monitoring station in Antarctica begins operations

China said its first atmospheric monitoring station in Antarctica started operations this week, a move aimed at helping observe changes on the southern continent and supporting the global response to climate change.

02/12 Did Venus ever have oceans? Scientists have an answer

Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth's twin based on their similar size and rocky composition. While its surface is baked and barren today, might Venus once also have been covered by oceans?

02/12 Global push for cooperation as space traffic crowds Earth orbit

The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate, experts say.

29/11 WADA investigating the effects of repeated carbon monoxide exposure

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said the use of carbon monoxide rebreathers to measure blood values should have no impact on athletic performance but it is looking into the effects of frequent and repeated exposure to the gas.

29/11 Global earth observation market to cross $8 bln by 2033, says Novaspace

The global Earth Observation (EO) market is on track to exceed $8 billion in valuation by 2033 from $5 billion currently, according to a new report from Novaspace, the merger of Euroconsult and SpaceTec Partners.

28/11 Fossil footprints in Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, leaving behind intersecting trackways alongside the footprints of antelopes, horses, warthogs, giant storks and other animals.

28/11 Feces and vomit fossils offer evidence explaining dinosaur supremacy

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, triggering a horrific mass extinction. But the way the dinosaurs - modest creatures initially - came to supremacy is less well understood.

26/11 Japan's space agency halts Epsilon S rocket engine test after fire

Japan's space agency has halted an engine combustion test of its Epsilon S rocket, a spokesperson said on Tuesday, after a fire broke out at the test site, 16 months after another failed engine test derailed Japan's small rocket development.

22/11 Fast-forming alien planet has astronomers intrigued

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of the speed of planetary formation.

21/11 Scientists obtain image of a star on the precipice of disaster

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads toward its demise in a huge explosion called a supernova - the first time the events of this pivotal stage have ever been imaged.

21/11 Elon Musk's Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial

Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking.

20/11 Is climate change making tropical storms more frequent? Scientists say it's unclear

An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that climate change is having on tropical storms across the globe.

20/11 Scientists announce progress toward ambitious atlas of human cells

Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand human health and diagnose and treat disease.

20/11 Findings by dark energy researchers back Einstein's conception of gravity

Scientists working in an international collaboration have tracked how the structure of the cosmos has grown over the past 11 billion years, providing the most precise test to date of how gravity behaves at very large scales. And what they found is that it acts as physicist Albert Einstein predicted it would in his groundbreaking 1915 theory of general relativity.

19/11 SpaceX to launch sixth Starship test from Texas, with Trump attending

Elon Musk's SpaceX is set on Tuesday to launch the sixth test of its giant Starship rocket from Texas, eyeing improvements in its hypersonic reentry into Earth's atmosphere and a novel technique for landing its booster, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump watches in person.

19/11 Dawn Aerospace rocket-powered aircraft successfully completes supersonic flight

Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered aircraft successfully completed its first supersonic flight, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, as it moves forward with developing aircraft able to launch satellites.

19/11 Trump may be planning to attend SpaceX launch in Texas

President-elect Donald Trump may be planning to attend a SpaceX rocket launch in person in Texas on Tuesday, another sign of his close ties with the company's billionaire founder and CEO Elon Musk.

18/11 Fossil from Germany unlocks history of ancient flying reptiles

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout and a mouthful of sharp teeth, searching for a lizard or another nice morsel to eat.

15/11 Samples obtained by Chinese spacecraft show moon's ancient volcanism

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the moon, which perpetually faces away from Earth. That material is now providing new insight into the moon's geological history including the oldest evidence to date of lunar volcanism.

14/11 The 'morphing' wheel from South Korea that may transform lives and robots

Imagine a wheelchair equipped with wheels flexible enough to navigate all manner of obstacles from kerbs to humps and even staircases.

13/11 'One-of-a-kind' skull fossil from Brazil reveals bird brain evolution

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But how the avian brain evolved over many millions of years from an ancestral dinosaurian form has long puzzled scientists. That has now changed thanks to a spectacular fossil discovery in Brazil.

11/11 Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's third largest, remains a bit of an enigma 243 years later. And some of what we thought we knew about it turns out to be off the mark.

08/11 Elon Musk's Mars dream could get boost from Trump victory

Elon Musk's dream of transporting humans to Mars will become a bigger national priority under the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, sources said, signaling big changes for NASA's moon program and a boost for Musk's SpaceX.

07/11 Chinese rover helps find evidence of ancient Martian shoreline

With the assistance of China's Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago - a far cry from the dry and desolate world it is today.

05/11 Webb telescope reveals rapid growth of primordial black hole

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects, which increase in mass over time by eating material that wanders too close, reside at the center of most galaxies.

05/11 Russia launches Soyuz rocket with dozens of satellites, including two from Iran

Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying two satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth and 53 small satellites, including two Iranian ones, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said.

05/11 World's first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space

The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.

31/10 Scientists rebuild the face of 400-year-old Polish 'vampire'

Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, "Zosia" was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead.

30/10 Scientists in Argentina unearth oldest tadpole, from dinosaur times

Scientists in Argentina have discovered excellently preserved fossil remains of the oldest-known tadpole, the larval stage of a large frog species that lived alongside dinosaurs about 161 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.

29/10 Chinese astronauts to conduct experiments in space, including lunar bricks

China sent three astronauts on Wednesday to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the construction of human habitats.

29/10 Astronomers observe black hole that may have formed gently

The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in the violent explosion, called a supernova, of a massive dying star. But some, it turns out, may be born in a gentler fashion.

25/10 NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from space station

A NASA astronaut was flown to a hospital with an unspecified medical issue on Friday shortly after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station, the U.S. space agency said.

25/10 Hong Kong's first dinosaur fossils, likely from large dinosaur, go on display

The first dinosaur fossils found in Hong Kong, likely from a large dinosaur, were put on display on Friday after they were found on a small, uninhabited outlying island, providing new evidence for research on palaeoecology in the financial hub.

24/10 Exclusive: Europe agency says it is in talks with SpaceX on tackling space junk

The European Space Agency is in talks with SpaceX about the possibility of Elon Musk's space venture joining an international charter designed to reduce a growing swarm of debris in space, Director General Josef Aschbacher told Reuters.

24/10 China says foreign spies trying to steal space program secrets

China's state security ministry said foreign spy intelligence agencies have been trying to steal secrets from the country's space programme as the arms race in space intensifies and emerges as a new "battlefield for military struggle".

23/10 Scientists document lost mountain cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route from the 6th to 11th centuries AD - the bigger one a center for the metal industry and the other reflecting early Islamic influence.

22/10 Ancient meteorite was 'giant fertilizer bomb' for life on Earth

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms. But that was far from the largest meteorite to strike our planet.

21/10 Three decades later, first brown dwarf ever found offers a surprise

In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener. But it turns out that was not the full story.