European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill -- I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that

10 hours ago

Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses -- NHS boffins think there's a connection, but 'snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous

14 hours ago

Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing -- Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project

2 days ago

Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything - Updated - More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem - Science - 28 Mar 2025 - | 32

7 hours ago

From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything - Interview - JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team' Science - 28 Mar 2025 - | 11

2 hours ago

Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste -- Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to £1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative

3 days ago

ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch -- All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost

4 days ago

50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building -- Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors

5 days ago

Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting -- PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost

5 days ago

Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that? -- Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission

5 days ago

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts -- Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?

5 days ago

NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat -- First woman and first person of color pledges dropped

7 days ago

NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry -- EXCLUSIVE -- A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list' -- Applications

10 days ago

Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps -- Comment -- Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough? -- Science

11 days ago

US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space - Begun, preparation for orbital wars has - Science - 20 Mar 2025 - | 50

5 days ago

Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense -- Comment -- Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line -- Science

12 days ago

Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways -- If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout

12 days ago

Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites -- First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next?

12 days ago

SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair -- Second time's a charm

14 days ago

Bubble trouble in hydraulics blamed for NASA and SpaceX Crew-10 scrub -- Trapped gas isn't just a party foul – it's a launch-stopper

12 days ago

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke -- Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts -- Offbeat

17 days ago

Saturn runs rings around Jupiter -- Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count -- Science

17 days ago

Starliner astronauts' stay drags on as Crew-10 launch scrubs - Updated - Hydraulic problems stop the countdown clock at T-44 minutes - Science - 13 Mar 2025 - | 35

13 days ago

ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads -- PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in -- HPC

17 days ago

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that -- Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings -- AI + ML

18 days ago

Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return -- Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt? -- Science

19 days ago

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent' Updated - Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon - Systems - 12 Mar 2025 - | 65

15 days ago

Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital -- Skip the schnitzel with gravy and chips for lunch - this is an experimental device for transplant candidates -- Science

19 days ago

From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up -- Researchers claim efficiency boost plus reduction in environmental harm

20 days ago

Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole? -- COMMENT -- Dare mighty things ... as long as we can afford it

20 days ago

Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats -- The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility

20 days ago

Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories -- Opinion -- Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos

20 days ago

Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery -- Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making -- AI + ML

23 days ago

Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater -- Second time unlucky for Intuitive Machines, but hey, at least we got 250MB of data from it -- Science

24 days ago

Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit -- To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while -- Edge + IoT

24 days ago

SpaceX's 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now -- 'Energetic event' did for Flight 8 after a few minutes. Super Heavy Booster recovered again, so there's that -- Science

24 days ago

Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over -- Space is hard. Hopefully not so hard the three rovers on this spaceship are lost

24 days ago

More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies -- Veteran probes close in on the half century

25 days ago

UK must give more to ESA to get benefits of space industry boom, says Brian Cox -- Physicist and media darling argues partnership with NASA too prone to political whim

25 days ago

Satnav systems built for Earth used by Blue Ghost lander as it approached the Moon -- No, your car can't navigate in space. But perhaps colonies can find their way without dedicated lunar GPS

25 days ago

Controllers getting no response from Lunar Trailblazer orbiter or Odin asteroid mining probe -- NASA and AstroForge missions prove Space is Hard

26 days ago

Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up -- 400MWh now, and 600MWh by next year? Crivens, that's a fat batt!

26 days ago

Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene -- Eggheads claim breakthrough in step toward making ancient beasts 'de-extinct'

27 days ago

SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship -- Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing

27 days ago

The ups and down of a virtual trip to the Moon in Zero G's 727 - interview - But what will the parabola specialist do when spares for Boeing's classic run dry? Science - 04 Mar 2025 - | 11

23 days ago

America's National Science Foundation workers fired in bulk by Trump now reinstated -- Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's become Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure -- Science

27 days ago

SpaceX receives FAA blessing for another Starship test -- Flying to the Turks and Caicos tonight? Good luck -- Science

28 days ago

Polish space agency confirms cyberattack -- Officials vow to uncover who was behind it -- Ransomware in Focus

27 days ago

First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies -- Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech -- 03 Mar 2025

28 days ago

ESA's Integral gamma-ray gazer gasps its last -- After almost 23 years on the job, observations end for 2029 re-entry -- 28 Feb 2025

28 days ago

AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot -- Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction -- 27 Feb 2025

28 days ago

DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures' -- How to make them, and what to use them for -- 27 Feb 2025

28 days ago

SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop -- All fixed for Flight Test Eight, OK?

1 month ago

The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin -- Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory

1 month ago

SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland -- Oxygen leak blamed for a lack of deorbit burn

1 month ago

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see - Analysis - Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising - Science - 23 Feb 2025 - | 261

1 month ago

Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash -- Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes -- Networks

1 month ago

Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027 -- Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew -- Science

1 month ago

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future -- Feature -- An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more

1 month ago

NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan? -- Comment -- Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission

1 month ago

France tops China's tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run -- Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance -- Science

1 month ago

Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight - Updated - Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too - Science - 19 Feb 2025 - | 37

1 month ago

Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites -- Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone -- Networks

1 month ago

Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward -- It's probably fine -- Science

1 month ago

Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other -- Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched

1 month ago

City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth -- Scientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact

1 month ago

There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032 -- Very unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does

1 month ago

International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15 -- The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe

1 month ago

Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel -- Student shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking

1 month ago

DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech -- Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real

1 month ago

James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world -- 40 m or 90 m? The difference matters in the case of impact

1 month ago

SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early -- 'Stranded' Starliner astronauts set for a March homecoming

1 month ago

Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation -- Einstein's spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade -- Science

1 month ago

RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101 - Obit - Engineer was behind the HEC series and more - Science - 11 Feb 2025 - | 52

1 month ago

NASA's radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts -- 'RadPC' flew on Firefly's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon -- Off-Prem

1 month ago

Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way -- Overdue, over budget and now... perhaps just over? -- Science

1 month ago

New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned -- Vladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years -- Science

1 month ago

Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden's EV charger build-out -- Funding freeze while Feds review priorities -- Science

1 month ago

NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco -- Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water -- Disaster Recovery Week

4 days ago

Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet -- Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear -- Science

1 month ago

Poland's 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party -- Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter -- Science

1 month ago

Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight -- Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers -- Science

1 month ago

Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024 -- More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters -- Public Sector

1 month ago

Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough -- Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push -- Science

1 month ago

Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price -- Special report -- Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that? -- 02 Feb 2025

1 month ago

'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk -- Sunita Williams lays claim to lead for female EVAs

1 month ago

European Space Agency picks Thales Alenia Space to build lunar lander -- ESA and the Argonauts

2 months ago

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032 -- Video -- Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly -- 31 Jan 2025

1 month ago

A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles -- Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing

2 months ago

And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples -- It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report

2 months ago

Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts -- SpaceX was already planning to return 'virtually abandoned' astros. Did Elon forget?

2 months ago

40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw -- O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later

2 months ago

Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid -- Without central repository for artificial objects, it'll only get worse -- Offbeat

2 months ago

Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course -- Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line -- Science

2 months ago

NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life -- Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans -- Science

2 months ago

China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run -- 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that -- Science

2 months ago

Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent -- Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon

2 months ago

Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming -- Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation

2 months ago

Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars - Comment - So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have? Science - 21 Jan 2025 - | 166

2 months ago

SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes -- Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment'

2 months ago