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SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap -- Redesigned booster ruptures during early checks, delaying latest Starship iteration
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Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA's Swift observatory from fiery demise -- Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job3 days ago
DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move -- Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit3 days 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 NASA3 days ago
China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew -- Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company -- Science4 days 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 -- Science4 days 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 Month2 days ago
Starlink's method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer -- Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime -- Networks4 days ago
Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike -- Original spacecraft deemed unsafe after cracks spotted in window -- Science8 days 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 - | 1073 days ago
Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches -- Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions -- Science9 days 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-Prem9 days 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 planets10 days 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 strategy10 days 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 year11 days ago
UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing -- Years of development still needed but AI, 3D printing, and other alternative options on the horizon11 days 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 -- Science12 days 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 -- Science15 days ago
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us -- Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers -- PaaS + IaaS16 days ago
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn -- Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services -- Science16 days ago
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS -- Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship -- Science16 days ago
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 Sector16 days 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-Prem16 days ago
ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews -- Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch -- Science16 days ago
SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship -- NASA is short of options when it comes to alternatives22 days 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 ISS22 days ago
Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation -- More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery22 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 one22 days ago
How do you solve a problem like Discovery? -- Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US? -- Offbeat29 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' -- Science29 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 -- Science29 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 -- Science1 month 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 -- Science1 month 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 -- Science1 month 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 + IaaS1 month ago
MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise -- 'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise -- Science1 month 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-Prem1 month 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 corp1 month ago
SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb -- Comment -- Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing1 month 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 -- Science1 month ago
SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement -- Updated -- Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await1 month 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 batteries1 month ago
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity -- Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos1 month ago
Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian' -- Exclusive -- Houston, we have a custody battle1 month ago
Mars' powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions -- Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA's veteran orbiters1 month 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 – allegedly1 month 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 - | 211 month 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 cryptography1 month 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 McDowell1 month 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 wrecking1 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 progress1 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 - | 521 month ago
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13 -- Once more with feeling... -- 01 Oct 20251 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 - | 151 month ago
Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron -- UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication -- 30 Sep 20251 month ago
Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes -- Company faces a setback on the test stand -- 30 Sep 20251 month ago
NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat -- DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark1 month ago
Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort -- If at first you don't succeed, you might be SpaceX1 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 - | 351 month ago
NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings -- Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all1 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 -- Science1 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 -- Systems1 month ago
Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones -- 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff -- AI + ML1 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 -- Science1 month ago
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil -- It's one small sip for man...2 months 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 trickier2 months 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 out2 months ago
Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year 'Dawn' mission -- Thanks for the memories, Akatsuki2 months 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 thing30 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'2 months 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, really2 months ago
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists -- That's optimistic based on progress so far2 months 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 -- Science2 months ago
Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide -- Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back -- Networks2 months ago
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Opinion - There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors - Science - 15 Sep 2025 - | 532 months ago
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart -- But it reads at about the speed of punch cards -- Storage2 months ago
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again - Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems - Science - 12 Sep 2025 - |2 months ago
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen -- Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop -- Science2 months ago
US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream -- That won't even warm the plasma -- Science2 months 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 -- Security2 months ago
NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far -- The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped -- Science2 months ago
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus -- Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness -- Science2 months ago
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype -- Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI -- Personal Tech2 months ago
SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit -- But what goes up will also have to come down -- Science2 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 blame2 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 back2 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 Senator2 months ago
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty -- Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff2 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 -- 01 Sep 20252 months ago
ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections -- Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun -- 01 Sep 20252 months ago
AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help -- "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" -- 31 Aug 20252 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 20252 months ago
Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart -- Company cleared to launch again after April failure2 months ago
Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10 -- Explosions all expected and on schedule this time2 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 - | 1312 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 looms2 months ago
Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX? -- We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds! -- Science2 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 -- Science2 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 -- Science3 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 + ML3 months ago