NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing -- Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III mission

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Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip -- So say Oxford boffins who found 'bias' related to Apollo rock samples created false impression

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Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost -- Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitude

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Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is -- What do Taylor Swift and Drake's release days have to do with road deaths? More than you'd think

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Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay - Sending humans around the Moon in - February - , er, March - – now April 2026, maybe - Science - 23 Feb 2026 - | 25

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NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter's ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate -- Upgrade allows robot to travel 'potentially unlimited distances' without phoning home for help

4 days ago

SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists -- Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming

5 days ago

NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle -- Plenty of blame to go around, says Isaacman

6 days ago

Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal -- Plants expected to begin operations as early as 2028 pending approval by state government -- Systems

9 days ago

DARPA's autonomous missile-firing missile advances toward flight tests -- Yo dawg, we heard you like missiles, so we put some missiles in your missile so you can boom while you zoom -- Science

9 days ago

AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas -- Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they can -- Systems

9 days ago

Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds -- Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads? -- Science

10 days ago

Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors -- To advance the 'ambient internet of things' – no batteries required -- Networks

10 days ago

NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results -- Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was off -- Science

10 days ago

Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit -- Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission -- Science

10 days ago

Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration - Updated - Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceport - Science - 13 Feb 2026 - | 18

12 days ago

NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission -- Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine

15 days ago

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency -- Someday

16 days ago

SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city -- FAA signs off on rocket's return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement plan

18 days ago

Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development -- Researchers claim model can cut years from testing cycles

18 days ago

Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook -- Crew-12 and Artemis II astros may soon snap, shoot, and share from orbit -- Science

21 days ago

Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station -- What about storing it in high orbit? -- Science

22 days ago

Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI -- Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom -- On-Prem

22 days ago

US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes -- Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-assisted threats -- Science

23 days ago

SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly -- Failed deorbit burn grounds workhorse rocket -- Science -- 04 Feb 2026

23 days ago

NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test -- This is starting to sound oddly familiar -- Science -- 03 Feb 2026

24 days ago

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun -- Burning Man woo woo values House of Grok at $250 billion -- Offbeat -- 03 Feb 2026

24 days ago

NASA taps Claude to conjure Mars rover's travel plan -- Is there life on Mars? Well, there's Claude in the machine -- Science -- 31 Jan 2026

24 days ago

Mechanical mutts make it official: Now full-time at Sellafield's hot zones - Bark!Bark!Bark! Spot's new cleanup gig involves gamma rays, alpha particles, and considerably less PPE than fleshy colleagues - Science - 30 Jan 2026 - | 40

25 days ago

Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules -- Governors offered atomic megasites and federal cash as hundreds of pages of regulations go missing

29 days ago

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA -- How a cold morning, failed O-rings, and flawed decision-making led to tragedy

30 days ago

NASA begins formal anomaly review after MAVEN probe lost in space -- Communication attempts ongoing for stricken spacecraft

1 month ago

Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort - RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure - HPC - 27 Jan 2026 - |

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NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter -- In space, no one can hear you bork

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Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan -- 40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly

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NASA planet hunter resumes operations after low power incident -- Pointing problem left TESS in the dark

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Rocket Lab's Neutron schedule under pressure after unexpected tank rupture -- Launch vehicle due to make maiden flight this year, company promises update in February earnings call

1 month ago

MIT boffins create device that 'paints' iridescent structural color in real time -- From adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next

1 month ago

Dead batteries cough up lithium after a bath in CO₂ and water, boffins say -- Still or sparkling? Either way, the problem of scale remains

1 month ago

NASA's Artemis II Moon rocket arrives at the launch pad -- If it all goes wrong, British kids of the '80s might remember an alternative

1 month ago

Congress throws NASA a lifeline, leaves Mars sample mission to die in the dust -- Agency dodges deep cut and mass mission shutdowns, but ambitious red planet plan gets the boot

1 month ago

India's flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row -- One payload out of fifteen survived and sent home some useful data

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ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness -- Sick astronaut back on Earth by Thursday, nature of ailment remains undisclosed

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NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare -- Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed

1 month ago

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more -- Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping -- On-Prem

1 month ago

Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars -- Extremophile bacteria could help turn Martian dirt into building material for human habitats -- Science

1 month ago

ISS spacewalk postponed over mystery astronaut malady -- NASA mulling options, including an early trip home -- Science

1 month ago

Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first -- Synthetic cephalopod skin could be used in architecture and computer displays as well as background-matching subterfuge -- Science

1 month ago

New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom -- Maybe our AI overlords, hell-bent on securing power any way they can, should invest in getting this to market -- Science

1 month ago

Historic NASA test towers face their final countdown -- Apollo-era Saturn V and Shuttle stands set for controlled demolition as Artemis ramps up -- Science

1 month ago

Congress ctrl-Zs bulk of proposed cuts to NASA science -- Fate of Shuttle Discovery remains conspicuously unaddressed in FY2026 agreement text -- Science

1 month ago

Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns -- Move will see spacecraft shift from 550 km to 480 km as collision risks rise -- Networks

1 month ago

Satellite radio transmissions are jamming telescopes and driving astronomers batty - Interview - 'What do we need to do better?' El Reg talks to comms boss about the problem - Science - 01 Jan 2026 - | 22

1 month ago

iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers -- The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids

1 month ago

NASA tries Curiosity rover's Mastcam to work out where MAVEN might be -- Time running out for savin' MAVEN as stricken spacecraft still silent as Mars solar conjunction nears

2 months ago

Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth -- Spacecraft set to burn up in a few weeks, but it could have been worse

2 months ago

Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried -- 25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous

2 months ago

Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon -- Ambitious timelines don't bend the laws of physics

2 months ago

Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt -- Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against China

2 months ago

NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth -- Spacecraft was 'rotating in an unexpected manner' and might have shifted orbit

2 months ago

Japan just sent origami to space to unfurl possibilities for outsized antennas -- That's just one of 16 innovative and experimental sats that launched Sunday

2 months ago

Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite - Asia In Brief - PLUS: Drugs found in ink cartridges; Censorship fighters criticize Vultr; Coupang CEO resigns; And more! Science - 15 Dec 2025 - | 47

2 months ago

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens -- It's getting crowded up there

2 months ago

Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms -- So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels

2 months ago

Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk -- Eight-hour EVA was also first outing for new spacesuits

2 months ago

Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion -- DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia

2 months ago

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter -- Didn't phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why

2 months ago

Rocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space -- Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground

2 months ago

NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage -- Billionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertainty

2 months ago

China's first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew - Asia In Brief - PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more - Networks - 08 Dec 2025 - | 19

2 months ago

We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares -- Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again'

2 months ago

China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing -- An 'anomaly' meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage

2 months ago

Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse -- LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits

2 months ago

ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado -- Updated -- Russian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals -- Science

2 months ago

UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain -- Brit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memory

2 months ago

Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs -- Asia in Brief -- PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more! -- Public Sector

2 months ago

Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight -- Roscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027

2 months ago

Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment -- ExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day

2 months ago

NASA pares back Boeing's Starliner deal after 2024 calamity -- Capsule might only manage three crewed missions to the ISS

3 months ago

Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous -- Uncrewed Shenzhou also delivered supplies and window fixing kit

3 months ago

Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream -- Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK

3 months ago

Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum -- Japanese team finds 80% of the tiny plant cells remained viable after 283 days in orbit

3 months ago

SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap -- Redesigned booster ruptures during early checks, delaying latest Starship iteration

3 months ago

Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA's Swift observatory from fiery demise -- Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job

3 months ago

DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move -- Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit

3 months ago

Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M -- Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn't betting everything on NASA

3 months ago

China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew -- Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company

3 months ago

Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually -- Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist

3 months ago

Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel -- €544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower -- Supercomputing Month

3 months ago

Starlink's method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer -- Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime -- Networks

3 months ago

Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike -- Original spacecraft deemed unsafe after cracks spotted in window -- Science

3 months ago

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout - Opinion - Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares - Personal Tech - 14 Nov 2025 - | 107

3 months ago

Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches -- Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions -- Science

3 months ago

Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales -- Government picks Wylfa on Anglesey for initial trio of units, but power unlikely before mid-2030s -- On-Prem

3 months ago

First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun -- Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets -- Science

3 months ago

Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme -- Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy -- Science

3 months ago

Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try' -- Hungry Hippo won't move to the launchpad until next year

3 months ago

UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing -- Years of development still needed but AI, 3D printing, and other alternative options on the horizon

3 months ago

SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew -- Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft

3 months ago

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS -- All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30

3 months ago