Rosalind Franklin rover gets another shot at Mars after string of bad luck -- Could 2030 bring touchdown at last? -- Science

20 hours ago

BepiColombo power struggle could leave probe short of Mercury's orbit - Updated - ESA/JAXA mission running on reduced thrust as engineers work to resolve the issue - Science - 16 May 2024 - | 4

19 hours ago

Neuralink keeps losing the thread on brain implant wiring -- Musk venture allegedly decided imperfect design was usable -- Science

2 days ago

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency -- It's definitely to protect the whales and not the fossil fuel industry -- Bootnotes

3 days ago

Hubble Space Telescope hasn't had any visitors for 15 years -- STS-125 – the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened -- Science

3 days ago

Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills' -- 'If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to f%*k off' -- Science

3 days ago

Japanese scientists propose drug to regrow teeth, promise trials won't bite -- Adios, dentures? -- Science

3 days ago

SpaceX set to literally rock Florida with more and bigger Starship launches -- Of course the FAA wants a look at the environmental impact of Musk's plans

7 days ago

Look to the skies this weekend as solar storms strike Earth - Video - Northern Lights may be visible way further south than usual thanks to outbursts from our Sun - Science - 10 May 2024 - | 28

4 days ago

Dream Chaser mini-shuttle set to take flight at last -- Spaceplane to be shipped to Kennedy Space Center for launch on a Vulcan Centaur

7 days ago

Brain-sensing threads slip from gray matter in first human Neuralink trial -- Oh well – next!

7 days ago

DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic claims AlphaFold 3 predicts bio-matter down to the DNA -- AI may help drug discovery, but not US drug affordability -- AI + ML

9 days ago

FYI... Renewable energy sources behind 30% of the world's electricity in 2023 -- It ain't all sunshine and windmills – and guess who's in the lead? China -- Science

9 days ago

NASA's planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work -- No more stress for TESS -- Science

9 days ago

Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool - Fake it until you make it, literally - Science - 06 May 2024 - |

11 days ago

Clock is ticking for NASA to fix bucket of issues before next Artemis mission -- Heat shield that looks like the surface of the Moon plus fiberglass doors on the launch platform on the list -- Science

15 days ago

Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers -- If you read about 'meticulous commendable intricacy' there's a chance a boffin had help -- AI + ML

15 days ago

Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon -- Relax! It's for low-gravity exercise -- Science

15 days ago

Huawei's hidden hand in optics research contest shocks scholars - Updated - US universities awarded money from a corp they had severed ties with - Networks - 02 May 2024 - | 21

12 days ago

Apple geofences third-party browser engine work for EU devices -- Exclusive -- Rival coders must have Europe-based staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing

16 hours ago

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems -- Fake science challenges academic publishing

1 day ago

Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep -- 'We would never crush creativity,' says South Korea megacorp

22 hours ago

Computer sprinkled with exotic chemicals produced super-problems, not super-powers -- On Call -- The machine was so dead, hospital staff treated it like a corpse

14 hours ago

Lords of May-hem: Seven signs it is Oracle's year end -- Feature -- How to handle sales pressure and licensing 'negotiations' to make sure it plays to your advantage

2 hours ago

Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI -- Company will require certain suppliers to run on 100% carbon-free electricity ... by 2030

22 hours ago

Stifling Beijing in cyberspace is now British intelligence's number-one mission -- CyberUK -- Annual conference of cyber intel unit shows UK's alarm over China blaring louder than ever

14 hours ago

Crims abusing Microsoft Quick Assist to deploy Black Basta ransomware -- Spoiler alert: it's not really IT support controlling your device

8 hours ago

Microsoft PC Manager app bizarrely suggests Bing as a Windows fix-all -- Bug or feature?

2 hours ago

Microsoft offers China-based engineers an option to relocate -- Office could be decimated with around 800 offers reportedly made

2 hours ago

NASA plasma propulsion project promises Mars in a flash -- System would also make it easier to transport much heavier spacecraft -- 02 May 2024

15 days ago

NASA solar sail boom demonstrator reaches orbit -- Big things come in small packages -- 02 May 2024

16 days ago

Space insurers make record-breaking loss as orbit gets cramped -- 'Unsustainable' losses neared $1B in 2023 -- 01 May 2024

17 days ago

Novel vitrimer plastics promise greener PCBs -- Even the least recyclable part of the process could be recovered 91 percent of the time -- 30 Apr 2024

17 days ago

China to launch sample return mission to the far side of the Moon – maybe next week -- And hatches 2030 plan to beat US for Mars rock retrieval

18 days ago

Hubble Space Telescope has gyro problems again -- Updated -- At 34, things don't seem to work how they used to

16 days ago

First Ariane 6 rocket ready to assemble as Europe begins final countdown -- Core and boosters are on the pad ahead of June launch

16 days ago

Japan's space junk cleaner prototype closes in on its target -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Huawei returns to top Chinese smartphone market; China's new IPv6 goals; Malaysia's golden VC Visa

19 days ago

NASA's Psyche hits 25 Mbps from 140 million miles away – enough for Ultra HD Netflix -- Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates

21 days ago

Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission -- Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth

21 days ago

Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night -- What do we say to the God of Death? Not today

23 days ago

SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing -- Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages

24 days ago

Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory -- All from billions of miles away

25 days ago

FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch -- Commercial operators must try Varda

26 days ago

A knotty problem: Boffins working on fuel-efficient trajectories for space travel -- Not yet the London Underground style efficient schematic we want, but it's a start

28 days ago

NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth - Updated - Look out for a new star next week - Science - 19 Apr 2024 - | 21

25 days ago

NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope -- Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts

1 month ago

Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data -- One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed'

1 month ago

Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas - Video - If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished - Science - 17 Apr 2024 - | 23

25 days ago

NASA confirms nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan -- Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034

1 month ago

China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip - Analysis - Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models - Systems - 16 Apr 2024 - | 6

25 days ago

NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack -- Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home?

1 month ago

NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground -- Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks

1 month ago

NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away -- Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software

1 month ago

Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions -- Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial -- Systems

1 month ago

Peter Higgs, daddy of the Higgs boson, dies at 94 - Obituary - The particle bearing his name lives on - Science - 10 Apr 2024 - | 13

1 month ago

CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 -- 2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap -- Public Sector

1 month ago

Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic -- Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality -- Networks

1 month ago

Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves -- Study finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation

1 month ago

Blue Origin to fly another 90-year-old into outer space -- Ed Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket

1 month ago

NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover -- At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive

1 month ago

65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts -- The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for'

1 month ago

Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens -- 3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time'

1 month ago

US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone -- What's a few microseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually

1 month ago

Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries -- Chinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right

1 month ago

Japan's moon lander sparks joy by making it through a second lunar night -- Brief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery

1 month ago

Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue -- Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues -- On-Prem

1 month ago

NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense -- Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics -- Science

1 month ago

Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic - Updated - Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills - Science - 27 Mar 2024 - | 9

1 month ago

Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear -- 100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth -- Science

1 month ago

Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets -- This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators

1 month ago

World's first Neuralink patient enjoying online chess, long Civ 6 sessions -- While excited by the implant, Noland Arbaugh says it's not perfect and there's still work to be done

1 month ago

DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with drafting lunar train blueprints -- Um. Let's successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite?

1 month ago

Euclid space telescope needs de-icing -- Warm water and a scraper not an option when you're 1.5 million kilometers from home

1 month ago

European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale -- Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space

1 month ago

Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off -- Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date

1 month ago

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage -- Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source

2 months ago

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship -- Booster hit the water hard and monster rocket lost during re-entry, but otherwise a success!

2 months ago

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble -- Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers

2 months ago

Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions - Video - KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad - Science - 13 Mar 2024 - | 17

2 months ago

NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble -- But Artemis is still OK, so that's alright then

2 months ago

Stratolaunch's air-launched test vehicle hits supersonic speed -- TA-1 test ticks off all the primary objectives, but hypersonic flight will have to wait

2 months ago

UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers -- Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk?

2 months ago

An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer - Interview - Chatting to Anmol Taploo about the race to develop tech for satellites - Science - 09 Mar 2024 - | 58

2 months ago

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth -- 'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive

2 months ago

Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too -- With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense

2 months ago

Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries -- Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027

2 months ago

Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open -- Time flies for The Flies

2 months ago

Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help -- Roscosmos has had a few problems landing on the lunar surface recently

2 months ago

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon -- To detect seismic waves, silly

2 months ago

NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies -- Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August

2 months ago

Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected -- Less abundant molecular oxygen narrow chances of life being found on Jupiter's icy moon

2 months ago

NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas -- OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs?

2 months ago

NASA's Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board -- The tech just isn't ready and clunky collab with ESA isn't helping, auditor finds

2 months ago

The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out -- 'Farewell' snap revealed by Intuitive Machines amid hope solar-powered craft may one day spring to life again -- 02 Mar 2024

2 months ago

Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air -- Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up -- 29 Feb 2024

2 months ago

New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners -- Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution -- 28 Feb 2024

2 months ago

Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side -- Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander -- 27 Feb 2024

2 months ago

FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again -- You've heard of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. How about an energetic engine failure?

2 months ago

ESA's ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted -- Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent

2 months ago

Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap -- How's that for resilient?

2 months ago

72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics -- Perseverance images show violent end to Ingenuity's final flight

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell -- Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now

2 months ago

Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science -- Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry

2 months ago

NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too -- No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday

2 months ago

Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told -- Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing - Updated - It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part - Science - 22 Feb 2024 - | 8

2 months ago

Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed -- Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency

2 months ago

Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage -- Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering

2 months ago

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground -- Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency

2 months ago