NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 -- 'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch' -- Science

9 hours ago

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power -- It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2' -- On-Prem

10 hours ago

NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag -- Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury -- Science

10 hours ago

Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles -- DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials -- Science

10 hours ago

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place -- Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III near

3 days ago

SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed -- Solar winds near aliens' homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals

3 days ago

Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream -- Calls Musk's orbital plans "speculative" despite Bezos touting orbiting compute

4 days ago

China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon -- Not a US flag in sight

4 days ago

NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead -- Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander -- Science

4 days ago

Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is -- Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late -- Science

4 days ago

NASA's asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour -- You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers -- Science

4 days ago

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom -- What hath science wrought? -- Bootnotes

5 days ago

60 YEARS SINCE HUMANITY FIRST TOUCHED THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER PLANET -- Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus

5 days ago

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smack Moon in 2032, boffins confirm -- Humanity and its neighbor safe from this menace at least

7 days ago

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps - Exclusive - Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal - Edge + IoT - 06 Mar 2026 - | 48

3 days ago

TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor -- Don't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay?

8 days ago

Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan -- Authorization Act seeks to keep lights on until commercial stations are ready

8 days ago

Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations -- FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things -- Networks

8 days ago

Solar superstorm gave ESA's Mars orbiters a handy science opportunity -- Veteran spacecraft overcome computer glitches as atmosphere 'flooded by electrons'

8 days ago

CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes -- Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes -- Science

8 days ago

Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits -- Jim Bridenstine says 'adjustments' to Artemis program were needed -- Science

9 days ago

European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites -- Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes -- Networks

9 days ago

MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver -- Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in mice -- Science

9 days ago

Fly me to the Moon: NASA reshuffles the Artemis card deck -- Artemis III now to follow in Apollo 9's footsteps, 2028 landing still planned for Artemis IV -- Science

9 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

16 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

18 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

19 days ago

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

20 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

23 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

23 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

24 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

24 days ago

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

24 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

24 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

24 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

26 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month 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

1 month ago

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

1 month 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

1 month ago

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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month ago

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

1 month 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 - |

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months ago

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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months ago

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

7 days 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

2 months 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

2 months ago

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

2 months 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

3 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

3 months ago

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

3 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

3 months ago

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

3 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

3 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

3 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

3 months ago

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

3 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

3 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

3 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

3 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

3 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

3 months ago