Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA -- Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections -- Public Sector -- 05 Nov 2025

20 hours ago

Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters -- Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit -- Off-Prem -- 04 Nov 2025

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ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews -- Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch -- Science -- 03 Nov 2025

1 day ago

SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship -- NASA is short of options when it comes to alternatives -- Science -- 31 Oct 2025

1 day ago

Japan's new space truck is also a temporary space lab, just worked first time -- HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS -- Science

5 days ago

Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation -- More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery -- Science

8 days ago

Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm -- How many 1080p screens can you fit on a pinhead? These German physicists reckon about one -- Science

9 days ago

How do you solve a problem like Discovery? -- Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US? -- Offbeat

12 days ago

Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars -- Airbus, Leonardo and Thales seek to 'strengthen Europe's strategic autonomy in space'

13 days ago

Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles -- Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public

13 days ago

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition -- Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers

14 days ago

Brit boffins teach fusion plasma some manners with 3D magnetic field -- MAST Upgrade team claims first suppression of pesky edge instabilities in a spherical tokamak

13 days ago

Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters -- Now try a jet engine in a bedstead before strapping into a Starship -- Science

16 days ago

Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit -- NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype -- PaaS + IaaS

19 days ago

MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise -- 'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise -- Science

19 days ago

Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity -- Energy secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters -- On-Prem

19 days ago

Axiom Space ejects CEO after six months, installs NASA veteran as replacement -- Updated -- Jonathan Cirtain at the helm as revolving door swings for private corp

20 days ago

SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb -- Comment -- Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing

20 days ago

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building - US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science - Science - 14 Oct 2025 - | 43

20 days ago

SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement -- Updated -- Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await

22 days ago

Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual -- Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteries

25 days ago

50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity -- Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos

26 days ago

Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian' Exclusive - Houston, we have a custody battle - Science - 09 Oct 2025 - | 115

13 days ago

Mars' powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions -- Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA's veteran orbiters

28 days ago

Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle -- Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off – allegedly

28 days ago

How chatbots are coaching vulnerable users into crisis - Feature - From homework helper to psychological hazard in 300 hours of sycophantic validation - AI + ML - 08 Oct 2025 - | 21

27 days ago

Trio who made foundational quantum computing discovery bag Nobel physics prize -- Studies at UC Berkeley in the 1980s paved the way for quantum computing and cryptography

29 days ago

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth's atmosphere -- Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell

30 days ago

Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told -- Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking

1 month ago

Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath -- Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress

1 month ago

Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks - IAC 2025 - Stray signals are a no-no when you're trying to tune into the stars - On-Prem - 02 Oct 2025 - | 52

23 days ago

SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13 -- Once more with feeling...

1 month ago

Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap - Geek's Guide - Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel - Geek's Guide - 01 Oct 2025 - | 15

27 days ago

Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron -- UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication

1 month ago

Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes -- Company faces a setback on the test stand

1 month ago

NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat -- DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark

1 month ago

Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort -- If at first you don't succeed, you might be SpaceX

1 month ago

NASA administrator says US should have 'village' on Moon in a decade - IAC 2025 - The Register is at the world's biggest space gabfest and just heard the world's top 6 space agency leaders speak - Science - 29 Sep 2025 - | 35

1 month ago

NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings -- Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all

1 month ago

SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost -- Meanwhile, Katalyst wins $30M contract to stop Swift telescope falling out of the sky

1 month ago

Tree-hugging hippie datacenter runs entirely on green hydrogen and wastes zero water -- Lambda's latest innovation with bit barn builder ECL only supports a handful of Nvidia racks, but it's a start -- Systems

1 month ago

Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones -- 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff -- AI + ML

1 month ago

NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan -- Safety watchdog doubts SpaceX can ready HLS in time for 2027 Artemis mission -- Science

1 month ago

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil -- It's one small sip for man... -- Science

1 month ago

Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself -- It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier

1 month ago

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants -- Judge rules there's no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out

1 month ago

Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year 'Dawn' mission -- Thanks for the memories, Akatsuki

1 month ago

AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either -- Inject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing

13 days ago

Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy -- Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'

1 month ago

Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say -- Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing – a bit like people, really

1 month ago

Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists -- That's optimistic based on progress so far

1 month ago

Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA -- We remind the world yet again that science fiction is usually a warning, not an aspiration

1 month ago

Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide -- Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back -- Networks

1 month ago

Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Opinion - There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors - Science - 15 Sep 2025 - | 53

1 month ago

Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart -- But it reads at about the speed of punch cards -- Storage

1 month ago

Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again - Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems - Science - 12 Sep 2025 - |

1 month ago

US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen -- Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop -- Science

1 month ago

US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream -- That won't even warm the plasma -- Science

1 month ago

NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks, even Zoom calls -- You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons why -- Security

1 month ago

NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far -- The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped -- Science

1 month ago

After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus -- Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness -- Science

1 month ago

Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype -- Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI -- Personal Tech

2 months ago

SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit -- But what goes up will also have to come down -- Science

2 months ago

Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again -- Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blame -- Science

2 months ago

UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government -- ARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back

2 months ago

Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited -- New Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator

2 months ago

White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty -- Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff

2 months ago

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University -- Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases

2 months ago

ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections -- Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun -- 01 Sep 2025

2 months ago

AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help -- "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" -- 31 Aug 2025

2 months ago

China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build -- 700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles -- 29 Aug 2025

2 months ago

Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart -- Company cleared to launch again after April failure -- 28 Aug 2025

2 months ago

Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10 -- Explosions all expected and on schedule this time

2 months ago

Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban - World War Fee - 'They have to give us magnets' Science - 26 Aug 2025 - | 131

2 months ago

ESA engineers trace anomaly in silent Juice spacecraft to a bug in the code -- Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus looms

2 months ago

Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX? -- We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!

2 months ago

Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative -- Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative -- Science

2 months ago

Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet -- Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings -- Science

2 months ago

IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums -- Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids -- AI + ML

2 months ago

Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back -- Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean -- Science

2 months ago

Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry -- Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined

2 months ago

NASA starts bolting together Artemis III rocket for 2027 Moon shot -- Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth

2 months ago

China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk -- Single spacesuit now worn 20 times

2 months ago

Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030 -- More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge

2 months ago

Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel -- Got a particle accelerator? Here's your tritium startup idea

2 months ago

Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy -- P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds

2 months ago

SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test -- If at first you succeed, keep trying until you don't

2 months ago

Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? -- You have until Thursday August 21 to respond if you do

2 months ago

Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme? -- US DoE names firms for Pilot Program to show how it could be done -- Science

2 months ago

Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins -- Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts -- Offbeat

2 months ago

NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit -- Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays -- Science

2 months ago

Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room -- First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor -- Science

2 months ago

UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' -- Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation

2 months ago

Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit - Obit - Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 - Science - 11 Aug 2025 - | 18

2 months ago

Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study -- Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins

2 months ago

China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests -- Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030

2 months ago

NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas -- Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one

2 months ago

NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon -- Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia

2 months ago

North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme -- Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby

2 months ago

NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations -- Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts?

2 months ago