By Eva Mañez and Emma Pinedo ELCHE, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish start-up PLD Space, which carried out Europe's first fully private rocket launch last year, aims to one day be able to carry any type of cargo and ultimately humans into space, rivalling...

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an asteroid bashed off course by NASA's DART spacecraft in 2022. The return visit to the Dimorphos asteroid...

By Marta Di Donfrancesco ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Spacewear has closed a deal with Virgin Galactic to design and develop a clothing range for the training of its astronauts and space tourists, the founder of the startup said. "With Virgin Galactic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to flight for a planned mission scheduled to launch on Oct. 7 from a station in Florida, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday. "The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicl...

LIMA (Reuters) - In a vacant lot outside the town of Trujillo, in northern Peru, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of nearly four dozen children -- all thought to have been ritually sacrificed more than 600 years ago. "Many of these remains...

By Nicolas Cortes and Alexander Villegas SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Findley is a lucky dog. The small white and brown Chilean terrier is one of the first dogs in the world to get neutered without having to go under the knife. The procedure happened in hi...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Dodo, the famous flightless bird that inhabited the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, is a case study in extinction caused by humans. The Dodo, finely adapted to its isolated ecosystem but unprepared for th...

(Reuters) - Boeing and Lockheed Martin's joint venture, United Launch Alliance, said on Friday its Vulcan rocket successfully launched its second mission, in what is a crucial step to receive certification for Pentagon missions. Vulcan, developed t...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island/LAS HORQUETAS, Argentina (Reuters)- - The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday afternoon, giving just a few specks of land an impressive annular "ring of fire" eclipse. Only Easter Island a...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 light years away, it is the closest single star - one not orbiting with other stars -...