Sky-watchers see ‘blood moon’ in total lunar eclipse
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Parts of the world saw a rare celestial event on Tuesday when the Earth's shadow fell across the moon, turning it orange. The lunar eclipse...
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Atlas rocket blasts off with secret U.S. military satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Thursday to put a classified satellite into orbit for...
Lockheed to begin building asteroid sampler for NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A NASA mission to pluck samples from a distant asteroid and return them to Earth passed a major technical review, clearing engineers to begin building...
U.S. military satellite launched after 15-year hold
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A U.S. military weather satellite, refurbished after more than a decade in storage, blasted off aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force...
New ‘geologic clock’ resets date for moon’s formation
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Earth's moon started forming up to 65 million years later than some previous estimates, according to a study released on Wednesday that uses a new...
Leaving politics behind, Russian-U.S. crew blasts off for space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut blasted off for six-month stay aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, a partnership unaffected by the political...
Step aside Saturn: Little asteroid has rings too
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - It is not just Saturn and the giant gas planets of the solar system that bear rings. For the first time, rings have been found...
Astronomers find mini-planet in solar system’s backyard
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronomers have found a dwarf planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto and can only guess how it got there. The diminutive world, provisionally called...
Leaving politics behind, Russian-U.S. crew blasts off for space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut blasted off for six-month stay aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, a partnership unaffected by the political...
Astronomers discover echoes from expansion after Big Bang
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Astronomers announced on Monday that they had discovered what many consider the holy grail of their field: ripples in the fabric of space-time that are echoes...