China launches first next-gen Long March 12 rocket, christens private spaceport -- Won't scare SpaceX as it's not reusable, but will help Beijing do things like launch broadband sats -- Science -- 02 Dec 2024

1 day ago

NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom - Feature - Pilot James 'Clue' Less is ready to take to the skies - Science - 30 Nov 2024 - | 58

4 hours ago

SpaceX hits 400 launches of Falcon 9 rocket -- Yet another batch of Starlink satellites mark the milestone -- Science -- 29 Nov 2024

3 days ago

Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium -- Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too -- Storage -- 29 Nov 2024

3 days ago

'Best job at JPL': What it's like to be an engineer on the Voyager project - Feature - 'I love this work. I love what I'm doing. It's so cool' Science - 28 Nov 2024 - | 32

1 day ago

China starts building world's largest fully steerable radio telescope -- 120-meter colossus expected to be online in 2028 – around the same time the Square Kilometer Array -- Science

5 days ago

Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find -- Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms -- Science

7 days ago

Musk agrees with fan that worries over orbital Starlink traffic a 'silly narrative' -- Forget the 10x programmer. How about 10x satellites? -- Networks

8 days ago

SpaceX closing in on approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025 -- Draft environmental assessment ready for public scrutiny

10 days ago

India's Moon orbiter was shifted suddenly to avoid Korea's and NASA's craft -- Apparently there's not enough space in space

11 days ago

SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch -- In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions

11 days ago

Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened -- Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up

11 days ago

NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers -- $45K says you can do it without a lunar rover -- Science

14 days ago

UK test-fires Spear mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters -- 2-way datalink allows in-flight info updates including retargeting and abort -- Public Sector

15 days ago

NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode -- Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic -- Science

15 days ago

First looks at China's Moon rock samples suggest Luna had volcanoes for longer than previously thought -- Stuff from the far side is basalt - but less KREEP-y than expected -- Science

15 days ago

Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff -- Video -- Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days -- Science

18 days ago

SpaceX Starship moved to launchpad for 6th flight test -- Yes, the heat shield has been tweaked. But there's also a banana for scale

18 days ago

Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software -- Updated -- Dam, the consequences -- Software

18 days ago

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to eject hundreds more workers -- Budget constraints result in 'painful but necessary adjustments'

18 days ago

Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware -- 'Forever unbrickable' Wi-Fi 6 box from Banana Pi comes packaged or in kit form

1 day ago

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs -- A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient

9 hours ago

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card? -- 80486 processor lead architect leaves x86 giant after largest quarterly loss in its history

21 hours ago

Telco security is a dumpster fire and everyone's getting burned -- Opinion -- The politics of cybersecurity are too important to be left to the politicians

1 day ago

Submarine cable resilience board announced on same day maybe-cut-by-China Baltic cable repaired -- ITU thinks time is now for more talk about how to keep data moving beneath the waves

1 day ago

NetAdmin learns that wooden chocks, unlike swipe cards, open doors when networks can't -- Who, Me? -- Burglary skills are surprisingly important when building networks

1 day ago

Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz -- Only 10 months left until Windows 10 end of support and people still seem to prefer it

20 hours ago

Interpol nabs thousands, seizes millions in global cybercrime-busting op -- Infosec in brief -- Also, script kiddies still a threat, Tornado Cash is back, UK firms lose billions to avoidable attacks, and more

1 day ago

Oracle's Java price hikes push CIOs to brew new licensing strategies -- Users could save 50% with open source alternatives, says expert

23 hours ago

Apple's backwards design mistake and the reversed capacitor -- It's true – the Mac LC III really did have it installed the wrong way round

1 hour ago

California's last nuclear plant turns to generative AI for filing and finding the fine print -- Diablo Canyon gets nifty new tech to ... speed up document retrieval? -- Science

19 days ago

UK's Darpa clone faces tough test next spring as government considers future funding -- With plant platforms and neural circuits on the program, Aria's leadership hope cross-party concensus continues -- Public Sector

20 days ago

What might a second term of Trump mean for the US space program? -- Moon, Mars, and Mayhem? -- Science

20 days ago

SpaceX Dragon gives ISS a helping hand with altitude -- Demonstration paves way for more reboosts before station's eventual deorbit -- Science

20 days ago

Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission -- Dwindling power and problematic communications, but the spacecraft just keeps on going

24 days ago

NHS to launch 'real-time surveillance system' to prevent future pandemics -- Nanopore DNA screening technology may identify novel pathogens, propose treatments in as little as six hours

25 days ago

NASA fires up super-quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft - Vid - A try called Quesst - Bootnotes - 08 Nov 2024 - | 91

2 days ago

Astroboffins tune into the wild origins of fast radio bursts -- Enigmatic cosmic signals from outside this galaxy could come from collapsed binary stars

25 days ago

SpaceX plans next Starship flight just days from now -- Hands up who wants to see the 'chopsticks' catch the Super Heavy again? -- Science

26 days ago

Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets -- Electromagnetic radiation contributed to that zincing feeling: analysts -- Science

26 days ago

Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space -- Wooden datacenters? Japan can build spacecraft out of the stuff -- Networks

28 days ago

The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium -- Have you seen this dome? It's full of stars -- Science

28 days ago

Reaction Engines' hypersonic hopes stall as funding fizzles out - Updated - 173 jobs gone after air-breathing rocket project loses lift - Science - 01 Nov 2024 - | 151

22 days ago

Japan's space agency to build a digital twin of its ISS module – right before it retires -- It's the space economy, stupid -- 01 Nov 2024

1 month ago

China refreshes crew of its 'Celestial Palace' space station -- Incoming trio includes first female engineer, a returning taikonaut, and one newbie -- 30 Oct 2024

1 month ago

NASA narrows Artemis III landing target list to nine -- The Mons Mouton Plateau looks nice this time of year. Or maybe you prefer Slater Plain? -- 29 Oct 2024

1 month ago

Tardigrade genes may hold secret to radiation treatments for humans -- Microscopic 'water bears' can survive blasts that would kill humans

1 month ago

China's first space tourism venture sells first pair of tickets -- Just two of 'em, at a discount befitting the early stage of development for the kit involved

1 month ago

Say hello to the epi-bit, a new approach to DNA data storage -- A single gram can hold 215,000 TB. Technique inspired by epigenetics might help unlock that potential

1 month ago

Scientists demand FCC test environmental impacts of satellites - updated - Boffins say it's absurd that the US comms watchdog won't consider atmospheric harms - Science - 24 Oct 2024 - | 15

25 days ago

Boffins explore cell signals as potential GPS alternative -- Team sends a flying cooler packed with DIY tech 15 miles up for the test

1 month ago

AI's energy appetite has Taiwan reconsidering the nuclear option -- Premier indicates possible shift in post-Fukushima policy

1 month ago

Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation -- Could organoid-driven computing be the future of AI power?

1 month ago

The Astronaut wore Prada – and a blast from Michael Bloomberg -- Stylish Artemis spacesuit design revealed last week should never fly, billionaire argues

1 month ago

Europa Clipper heads to Jupiter: Can its icy moon support life? -- But first stop is Mars for a speed boost, then back to Earth for the final push -- Science

1 month ago

Oh, what a feeling: Toyota building robots that get better with practice -- Bots that learn to peel potatoes is a lot less scary than Black Mirror -- Science

1 month ago

China launches plan to lead the world in space exploration -- Long-term research program includes building Moon bases, finding habitable exoplanets, and probing 'space-time ripples' -- Science

1 month ago

Amazon makes $500M bet on itty-bitty nuclear reactors to fuel cloud empire -- The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition -- Systems

1 month ago

Viable fusion power in a decade? Tokamak Energy dares to dream -- Brit biz updates world on why tech might not be forever 30 years away

1 month ago

Testing spacecraft material the Sandia way: Setting it on fire with mirrors -- Who said Archimedes' death ray was a busted myth?

1 month ago

ESA astronaut on the difference between flying in a Soyuz and piloting a Crew Dragon - Interview - Plus: We chat about going to the Moon and keeping the ISS running for a few more years - Science - 15 Oct 2024 - | 9

1 month ago

NASA's Europa Clipper leaves for Jupiter's moon atop Falcon Heavy -- Liftoff after dodging hurricanes and paranoia scrub

1 month ago

First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster -- Mechanical chopsticks on the launch tower grab a returning rocket and Starship splashes down on target

1 month ago

Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver -- The Space Force craft will attempt aerobraking for the first time

1 month ago

Is the first European on the Moon in ESA's astronaut corps? Interview - Director General on being a good partner and developing rockets - Science - 11 Oct 2024 - | 8

1 month ago

Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps -- Scientists undecided about possible flavor

1 month ago

Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse -- It can also type, so the robo-doctor can heal you and write legibly

1 month ago

BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham -- We'd know if it were true, and our reporters are just fine

1 month ago

Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications -- On the bright side, auroras may dazzle skies as far south as mid-latitudes

1 month ago

Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators - another win for AI -- Let's just hope they don't give the literature award to a bot, too

1 month ago

AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer -- First-ever awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence

1 month ago

Babbage boffin Ada Lovelace honored for computer science contributions -- Penned Analytical Engine algorithm in her youth, imagine if she'd lived past 36

1 month ago

DoE awards next-gen nuclear fuel contracts backwards -- 'Deconversion' can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD

1 month ago

Vulcan Centaur avoids FAA scrutiny after losing solid rocket booster nozzle -- Is that a sparkler attached to the bottom of your rocket or just something falling off?

1 month ago

Netflix on Mars? Yeah maybe, thanks to NASA's laser comms demo -- Optical communications not just for night owls

1 month ago

If you're excited by that $1.5B Michigan nuke plant revival, bear in mind it's definitely a fixer-upper -- Analysis -- Activists, ex-insider sound the alarm as operator says all is under control -- On-Prem

1 month ago

ULA nears second launch of Vulcan Centaur in pursuit of US Space Force approval -- Updated -- No spaceplane in the payload, but it won't be a wasted mission -- Science

1 month ago

NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice -- Veteran probe set to score a half-century while still doing science

1 month ago

US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene -- Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall -- Science

2 months ago

Uncle Sam lends $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025 -- Up and atom! -- Public Sector

2 months ago

Got an idea for dealing with space waste? NASA wants to hear from you -- Using a nearby crater as a landfill is not a sustainable way to live on the Moon -- Science

2 months ago

Earth's new mini-moon swings by, then ghosts us by late November -- No need for farewells, 2024 PT5 may drop in again in 2055 -- Science

2 months ago

Canon ships first nanoimprint chipmaking machine to R&D lab -- Lithography technique does not require a light source, unlike ASML's complex extreme ultraviolet approach -- 01 Oct 2024

2 months ago

SpaceX Falcon 9 grounded again after second stage hits wrong part of ocean - Updated - Otherwise, Crew-9 launch was a complete success - Science - 30 Sep 2024 - | 23

1 month ago

Starfish Space to tackle orbital junk for NASA with SSPICY Otter -- Is this a debris inspection mission or an Ubuntu release? -- 26 Sep 2024

2 months ago

NASA's Astrobees need a new buzz – any ideas for the space-dwelling bots? -- Hey Reg readers, what would you do with Honey, Queen, and Bumble? -- 26 Sep 2024

2 months ago

ESA spending €17M on spacecraft just to watch it go up in flames -- DRACO will be born to die in the fires of atmospheric re-entry

2 months ago

NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own -- Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good

2 months ago

India funds Moon lander, space station module, and Venus orbiter -- Wants lunar sample return within three years, Venus launch in 2028, orbiting hab in 2035, boots on Luna five years later

2 months ago

Scientists demonstrate X-rays as a way to zap asteroids out of Earth's path -- Lab-based proof-of-concept shows how radiation creates explosive plumes to deflect menacing space rocks

2 months ago

Look! About chest high! Is it a pallet? Is it a drone? No, it's a Palletrone -- And it's here to carry your not-very-heavy stuff

2 months ago

Musk dreams of launching five Starships to Mars in two years -- Just like robotaxis, actual full self-driving, etc etc in just a few years

2 months ago

Axiom Space puts a brave face on claims of dire finances -- Losing money on missions, space station delayed, but 'we will not be deterred'

2 months ago

Heart of glass: Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal -- Just in case some aliens, say, come along in a billion years and feel like cloning us from extinction

2 months ago

A huge week for satnav as both China and Europe make generational launches -- Upgrades on the way for both, with deep-ocean services and programmable sats on the way -- Science

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot -- Surely at least one crew will get there in the next ten years? -- Science

2 months ago

Hey kids, wanna clock the ISS? ESA's Astro Pi challenge runs your code in space -- Send astronauts nice pixel art, or try something a little harder -- Science

2 months ago

SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience -- Some good news for Elon – 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party -- Public Sector

2 months ago

ESA and Neuraspace ink 2-year deal for Space Traffic wrangling -- Multi-million euro package to control satellite swerving and debris dodging

2 months ago

The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears -- Solar arrays are massive... but it's the transistors onlookers are really worried about

2 months ago

Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike -- Doubtful processes, risky spacecraft, what else could possibly go wrong? Oh...30,000 staff off work

2 months ago

Japan to put a small red Swedish house on the Moon -- No, you read that right

2 months ago

SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission completes first commercial spacewalk -- More cautious than 1960s efforts, EVA goes off without a hitch

2 months ago

NASA engineers play space surgeon in bid to unclog Voyager 1's arteries -- 'Brilliant' team performs electrical balancing act to keep probe pointed at Earth

2 months ago

SpaceX blasts being stuck in bureaucratic orbit as Starship approval slips -- Toys launched from pram as Musk's rocketeers stamp feet over paperwork

2 months ago

Robot enters Fukushima's nuclear core to retrieve melted-down remains - Video - Trying for 3 grams, only 880 tons to go! Science - 11 Sep 2024 - | 28

2 months ago

SpaceX aims high with Polaris Dawn mission -- Altitude record within grasp and in-house spacesuits to be put through their paces

2 months ago

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change - Video - $7.5 billion needed, the kind of cash Apple makes without trying - Science - 10 Sep 2024 - | 103

2 months ago

Cluster II spacecraft reenters and burns up with a nod to its controllers -- Salsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along

2 months ago

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin waves bye bye to October 13 ESCAPADE -- Mars adventure postponed to 2025. Perhaps

2 months ago