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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 - | 311 hours ago
Neuralink keeps losing the thread on brain implant wiring -- Musk venture allegedly decided imperfect design was usable -- Science1 day 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 -- Bootnotes2 days ago
Hubble Space Telescope hasn't had any visitors for 15 years -- STS-125 – the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened3 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'3 days ago
Japanese scientists propose drug to regrow teeth, promise trials won't bite -- Adios, dentures?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 plans6 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 - | 283 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 -- Science6 days ago
Brain-sensing threads slip from gray matter in first human Neuralink trial -- Oh well – next! -- Science7 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 + ML8 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? China8 days ago
NASA's planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work -- No more stress for TESS8 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 - |10 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 list12 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 + ML14 days ago
Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon -- Relax! It's for low-gravity exercise -- Science14 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 - | 2111 days ago
NASA plasma propulsion project promises Mars in a flash -- System would also make it easier to transport much heavier spacecraft -- Science14 days ago
NASA solar sail boom demonstrator reaches orbit -- Big things come in small packages -- 02 May 202415 days ago
Space insurers make record-breaking loss as orbit gets cramped -- 'Unsustainable' losses neared $1B in 2023 -- 01 May 202415 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 202415 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 -- 30 Apr 202415 days ago
Hubble Space Telescope has gyro problems again -- Updated -- At 34, things don't seem to work how they used to15 days ago
First Ariane 6 rocket ready to assemble as Europe begins final countdown -- Core and boosters are on the pad ahead of June launch15 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 Visa18 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 cooperates20 days ago
Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission -- Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth20 days ago
Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night -- What do we say to the God of Death? Not today21 days ago
SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing -- Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages23 days ago
Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory -- All from billions of miles away23 days ago
FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch -- Commercial operators must try Varda25 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 start27 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 - | 2123 days ago
NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope -- Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts28 days ago
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data -- One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed'29 days 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 -- Science29 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 203429 days ago
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip -- Analysis -- Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models -- Systems1 month 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? -- Science1 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 -- Science1 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 -- Science1 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 -- Systems1 month ago
Peter Higgs, daddy of the Higgs boson, dies at 94 - Obituary - The particle bearing his name lives on - Science - 10 Apr 2024 - | 131 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 Sector1 month ago
Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic -- Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality -- Networks1 month ago
Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves -- Study finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation -- Science1 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 rocket1 month ago
NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover -- At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive1 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 -- Science -- 03 Apr 20241 month ago
Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries -- Chinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right -- Science -- 03 Apr 20241 month ago
Japan's moon lander sparks joy by making it through a second lunar night -- Brief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery -- Science -- 02 Apr 20241 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 -- 28 Mar 20241 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 avionics1 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 - | 91 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 Earth1 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 regulators1 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 done1 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 home1 month ago
European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale -- Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space1 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 date1 month ago
Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage -- Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source2 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 engineers2 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 - | 172 months ago
NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble -- But Artemis is still OK, so that's alright then2 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 wait2 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 - | 581 month 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 survive2 months ago
Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too -- With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense2 months ago
Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries -- Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 20272 months ago
Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open -- Time flies for The Flies2 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 recently2 months ago
Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon -- To detect seismic waves, silly2 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 August2 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 moon2 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 finds2 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 again2 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 up2 months ago
New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners -- Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution2 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 lander2 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 bent2 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 flight2 months ago
Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell -- Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now2 months ago
Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science -- Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry2 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 Thursday2 months ago
Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told -- Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident2 months ago
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing - Updated - It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part - Science - 22 Feb 2024 - | 82 months ago
Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed -- Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency2 months ago
Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage -- Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering2 months ago
Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground -- Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency2 months ago
Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable - Opinion - Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around? Science - 19 Feb 2024 - | 2972 months ago