Space insurers make record-breaking loss as orbit gets cramped 'Unsustainable' losses neared $1B in 2023 Science01 May 2024 | 37
Satellite of love: SES and Intelsat finally tie the knot in $3.1B acquisition Second time lucky as competition from Starlink and pals increases Networks30 Apr 2024 | 1
China to launch sample return mission to the far side of the Moon – maybe next week And hatches 2030 plan to beat US for Mars rock retrieval Science30 Apr 2024 | 19
First Ariane 6 rocket ready to assemble as Europe begins final countdown Core and boosters are on the pad ahead of June launch Science29 Apr 2024 | 15
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 Science29 Apr 2024 | 11
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 Science27 Apr 2024 | 55
Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth Science26 Apr 2024 | 44
Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night What do we say to the God of Death? Not today Science25 Apr 2024 | 16
Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics Networks23 Apr 2024 | 20
Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory All from billions of miles away Science23 Apr 2024 | 40
FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch Commercial operators must try Varda Science22 Apr 2024 | 9
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 Science20 Apr 2024 | 26
NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth Updated Look out for a new star next week Science19 Apr 2024 | 21
NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts Science18 Apr 2024 | 13
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' Science18 Apr 2024 | 21
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? Science16 Apr 2024 | 40
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 Science16 Apr 2024 | 46
Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here Security11 Apr 2024 | 41
Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality Networks09 Apr 2024 | 25
Blue Origin to fly another 90-year-old into outer space Ed Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket Science05 Apr 2024 | 23
NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive Science04 Apr 2024 | 13
65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for' Science04 Apr 2024 | 16
Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens 3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time' Science04 Apr 2024 | 48
US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone What's a few microseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually Science03 Apr 2024 | 60
Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries Chinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right Science03 Apr 2024 | 29
Japan's moon lander sparks joy by making it through a second lunar night Brief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery Science02 Apr 2024 | 4
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 Science27 Mar 2024 | 6
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages Networks27 Mar 2024 | 2
Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic Updated Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills Science27 Mar 2024 | 9
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 Science26 Mar 2024 | 18
DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with drafting lunar train blueprints Um. Let's successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite? Science20 Mar 2024 | 63
Euclid space telescope needs de-icing Warm water and a scraper not an option when you're 1.5 million kilometers from home Science20 Mar 2024 | 12
European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space Science20 Mar 2024 | 44
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 Science19 Mar 2024 | 13
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! Science14 Mar 2024 | 128
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers Science14 Mar 2024 | 101
Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions Video KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad Science13 Mar 2024 | 17
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? Science11 Mar 2024 | 40
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 Science09 Mar 2024 | 58
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 Science08 Mar 2024 | 45
Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense Science07 Mar 2024 | 6
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 Science06 Mar 2024 | 26
NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August Science06 Mar 2024 | 4
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 Science05 Mar 2024 | 21
NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs? Science04 Mar 2024 | 2
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 Science02 Mar 2024 | 37
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 Science29 Feb 2024 | 19
Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander Science27 Feb 2024 | 25
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? Science27 Feb 2024 | 60
Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap How's that for resilient? Science27 Feb 2024 | 14
Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now Science26 Feb 2024 | 33
India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei’s tablets beat iPad sales; Japanese supermarket’s long ransomware fight; Do Kwon extradited Systems26 Feb 2024 | 3
Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry Science23 Feb 2024 | 7
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 Science23 Feb 2024 | 19
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing Updated It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part Science22 Feb 2024 | 8
Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms HPC20 Feb 2024 | 18
Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering Science19 Feb 2024 | 11
Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency Science19 Feb 2024 | 36
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? Science19 Feb 2024 | 297
Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G Updated One giant leap for astronaut medicine Science16 Feb 2024 | 12
NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times Science16 Feb 2024 | 9
Pentagon launches nuke-spotting satellites amid Russian space bomb rumors Updated Dungeons and Dragons, high-waisted jeans, Cold War sabre rattling – the '80s are back, baby Public Sector15 Feb 2024 | 69