First Ariane 6 rocket ready to assemble as Europe begins final countdown - Core and boosters are on the pad ahead of (maybe) June launch - Science - 29 Apr 2024 - |

2 hours 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 Visa - Science - 29 Apr 2024 - | 2

2 hours 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 cooperates

1 day ago

Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission -- Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth

2 days ago

Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night -- What do we say to the God of Death? Not today

3 days ago

SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing -- Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages

5 days ago

Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory -- All from billions of miles away

5 days ago

FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch -- Commercial operators must try Varda

6 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 start

8 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 - | 21

5 days ago

NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope -- Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts

10 days ago

Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data -- One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed'

11 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 -- Science

11 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 2034

11 days ago

China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip -- Analysis -- Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models -- Systems

12 days 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?

12 days 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 -- Science

12 days 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 -- Science

13 days 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 -- Systems

17 days ago

Peter Higgs, daddy of the Higgs boson, dies at 94 - Obituary - The particle bearing his name lives on - Science - 10 Apr 2024 - | 13

16 days ago

Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI -- High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave

6 days ago

Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts -- What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares

3 days ago

UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition -- Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm

2 days ago

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs -- Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS

5 days ago

Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness -- Who, Me? -- For once, Redmond's finest saved the day - by being rubbish in unexpectedly useful ways

6 days ago

Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right -- On Call -- Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways

2 days ago

Researchers claim Windows Defender can be fooled into deleting databases -- BLACK HAT ASIA -- Two rounds of reports and patches may not have completely closed this hole

6 days ago

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout -- Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place

2 days ago

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? -- Exclusive -- One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all

4 hours 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 Sector

19 days ago

Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic -- Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality -- Networks

19 days ago

Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves -- Study finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation -- Science

19 days ago

Blue Origin to fly another 90-year-old into outer space -- Ed Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket -- Science

19 days ago

NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover -- At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive

24 days 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'

24 days 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'

24 days 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

24 days 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 2024

25 days 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 2024

26 days 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 2024

26 days 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 avionics -- Science -- 27 Mar 2024

26 days 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 - | 9

26 days 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 Earth

1 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 regulators

1 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 done

1 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 home

1 month ago

European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale -- Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space

1 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 date

1 month ago

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage -- Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source

1 month 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!

1 month ago

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble -- Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers

1 month 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 - | 17

1 month ago

NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble -- But Artemis is still OK, so that's alright then

1 month 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 wait

1 month 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?

1 month 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 - | 58

1 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 survive

1 month ago

Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too -- With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense

1 month ago

Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries -- Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027

1 month ago

Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open -- Time flies for The Flies

1 month 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 recently

1 month ago

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon -- To detect seismic waves, silly

1 month ago

NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies -- Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August

1 month 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 moon

1 month ago

NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas -- OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs? -- 04 Mar 2024

1 month 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 finds -- 04 Mar 2024

1 month 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 again -- 02 Mar 2024

1 month 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 up -- 29 Feb 2024

1 month ago

New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners -- Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution

2 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 lander

2 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 bent

2 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 flight

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell -- Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now

2 months ago

Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science -- Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry

2 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 Thursday

2 months ago

Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told -- Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing - Updated - It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part - Science - 22 Feb 2024 - | 8

2 months ago

Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed -- Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency

2 months ago

Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage -- Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering

2 months ago

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground -- Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency

2 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?

2 months ago

Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G -- Updated -- One giant leap for astronaut medicine

2 months ago

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped -- 121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once

2 months ago

NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space -- Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket -- Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes

2 months ago

WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age -- The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover

2 months ago

NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission? -- Ready for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court

2 months ago

Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason -- The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group has just given 29 space rocks names

2 months ago

Japan's space program seeks reboot with Wednesday launch -- Second test flight for failed H3 booster after a run of bad luck

2 months ago

50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth -- Around The World in 84 days

2 months ago

Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high -- Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035

2 months ago

NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite -- 'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter

2 months ago

Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery -- 2 MWh of energy storage using dirt, winches, and cables set to be installed in Finland

2 months ago

Saturnian moon Mimas: Crunchy on the outside, sub-surface ocean on the inside -- Data from Cassini suggests hidden depths beneath crater-ridden body

2 months ago

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider -- Vid -- CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org's existing inspector bots -- Science

2 months ago

Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole -- Launch windows do not respect political squabbling

2 months ago

How Neuraspace aims to clean up orbital clutter with AI -- Interview -- Can tech and regulations beat the great satellite landgrab? -- AI + ML

2 months ago

India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability -- Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025

2 months ago

SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal -- Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off -- Personal Tech

2 months ago

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator -- The Future Circular Collider, if built, will be three times the size of the LHC -- Science

2 months ago

Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters -- Letter: Budget cuts will 'essentially cancel' daring multi vehicle project unless reversed -- Science

2 months ago

Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough -- Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid -- Science

2 months ago

DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy - Updated - Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us - Science - 31 Jan 2024 - | 8

2 months ago

Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk -- Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve?

2 months ago

ESA salutes Galileo satellite system meeting aviation standards -- It's all in the software

2 months ago

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human -- Controling prostheses? Mr X imagines an app for that

2 months ago