Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars And you thought patching your production environment was stressful Science15 Apr 2023 | 52
Goddard Space Flight Center's new boss swears in on holy Pale Blue Dot Some brilliant toys await Dr Makenzie Lystrup in mega space facility Science12 Apr 2023 | 15
Move over, Google Earth. Caltech's here with a fresh 3D tour of Mars Alien dust world globe took three years of hand-stitching images to create Science08 Apr 2023 | 18
America longs to expand low-Earth orbit economy 'for the benefits of humanity' And commercial operators, with NASA a keen customer Defense Tech Week05 Apr 2023 | 12
NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight First for women, people of color, Canucks Science03 Apr 2023 | 46
Boeing's first-ever crewed mission in Starliner ISS spacecraft delayed to late July Still hundreds of components, verification checks to complete before test flight Science30 Mar 2023 | 17
Lockheed Martin launches biz to build lunar satellite network Crescent Space will be 'well positioned' to get a piece of NASA's cash pie, no contract yet Networks29 Mar 2023 | 1
Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed trip to the ISS delayed again over battery overheating risk May fly in the summer, with some presumably pretty nervous pilots Science26 Mar 2023 | 26
NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess 13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm Science21 Mar 2023 | 8
NASA spots first evidence of an active volcano on Venus – in a big pile of CD-ROMs Disc-trawling expedition of 30-year-old data turns up trumps Science16 Mar 2023 | 11
Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025 Charcoal gray with orange highlights – so chic, and so deliberately fake Science16 Mar 2023 | 63
Firefly gets nod from NASA to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon LuSEE in the sky with ... data Science15 Mar 2023 | 14
Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used NASA expects to spend about $1 billion to bring it down safely Science15 Mar 2023 | 132
MIT researchers propose modular, multi-mission Moon robots Fancy playing with some space Lego? Science14 Mar 2023 | 1
NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon Aims to look at the universe's dark ages without interference from Earth Science14 Mar 2023 | 51
Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth Luckily this rock is only about the size of the Arc de Triomphe, let alone the 600-to-1 chance Science12 Mar 2023 | 30
The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts Science09 Mar 2023 | 68
NASA fixes solar observation spacecraft by turning it off and turning it on again 'Firemode reset' sees Interstellar Boundary Explorer back on the job Science07 Mar 2023 | 41
NASA finds crashing spacecraft into asteroids is a viable defence strategy Recoil from DART impact changed Dimorphos's orbit more than expected Science02 Mar 2023 | 37
Double trouble for NASA with two spacecraft on the fritz Interstellar Boundary Explorer isn't listening and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission off to unlucky start Science01 Mar 2023 | 3
If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems Science01 Mar 2023 | 142
Ground equipment failure scrubs latest ISS SpaceX launch Crew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home Science27 Feb 2023 |
It's getting crowded on the ISS: SpaceX Crew-6 to launch Monday NASA is used to dealing with extra guests: just sleep on the ceiling Science24 Feb 2023 | 4
Light from a long time ago reaches James Webb Space Telescope Galaxies got big much sooner than expected, new observations Science22 Feb 2023 | 27
ISS rescue Soyuz launches this week, won't return crew until September Leaving another Russian craft in orbit for months ... what could go wrong? Science21 Feb 2023 | 5
Research raises questions: Are instruments taken to Mars sensitive enough to find life? Study in Chile desert finds NASA Mars mission instruments unlikely to detect signs of life in Earth's most arid regions Science21 Feb 2023 | 18
Language, schmanguage: NASA's generative AI builds spaceships Or their parts, at least, which look decidedly skeletal for satellite struts AI + ML13 Feb 2023 | 22
Water-hunting NASA cubesat won't reach Moon after total thruster fail ASCENT propulsion system just didn't work Science10 Feb 2023 | 21
Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos We wanted robot butlers and flying Deloreans ... and got internet-from-orbit instead Science10 Feb 2023 | 36
Curiosity finds clearest evidence yet for water on Mars A rippled rocky ridge suggests the presence of lakes and waves, all at a higher elevation than expected Science09 Feb 2023 | 10
NASA Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission ends after last data recorder fails Also, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there Science31 Jan 2023 | 23
James Webb Space Telescope suffers another hitch: Instrument down Second system to be knocked offline Science26 Jan 2023 | 57
Watch Rocket Lab lift off from US for first time, put radio-sniffing sats into orbit Video Nice of someone to give SpaceX a little competition Science26 Jan 2023 | 5
NASA, DARPA to go nuclear in hopes of putting boots on Mars Fission reactor rocket should get them going quite fast Science25 Jan 2023 | 44
Lucy asteroid probe forced to limp on without full solar array Attempts to fix glitch ditched – but never give up, never surrender Science24 Jan 2023 | 2
NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penalties Software13 Jan 2023 | 40
The years fly by on first exoplanet confirmed by James Webb Space Telescope LHS 475 b same size as Earth, rocky, but hotter, and so close to its star it orbits in 2 days Science12 Jan 2023 | 7
Stranded ISS astronauts are getting a new Soyuz to ride home The coolant-deprived vessel that got them there will return to Earth alone Science11 Jan 2023 | 14
Remember the Ozone hole? The satellite that spotted it just caused a space junk scare South Korean authorities warned locals to avoid falling space junk, which probably splashed down harmlessly Science09 Jan 2023 | 10
Literally, look who's back: A comet that last swung by Earth 50,000 years ago All right, C/2022 E3, we know what you're thinking – and we can explain everything, kinda Science04 Jan 2023 | 13
NASA boss says US may lose latest space race with China Beijing could dent Yank efforts to colonize Moon if it gets there first Science04 Jan 2023 | 42
NASA may tap SpaceX to rescue ISS 'nauts in Soyuz leak And Elon's still distracted by Twitter, yes? OK, that's probably for the best Science30 Dec 2022 | 49
Perseverance rover drops off first sample tube on surface of Mars Woohoo! Cameras on robot's belly confirm it isn't going to drive over it Science22 Dec 2022 | 30
NASA retires Mars InSight mission after it enters ‘dead bus’ condition So long and thanks for all the science Science22 Dec 2022 | 19
NASA infosec again falls short of required US government standard Good thing space agency doesn’t have any state secrets … oh, hang on CSO21 Dec 2022 | 13
NASA's latest AI will navigate the Moon using landmarks Compass, protractor and map not required to triangulate lunar coordinates Science20 Dec 2022 | 13
NASA's Mars InSight uploads its (probably) final image, shares it in a tweet All those expensive gadgets the boffins attached to it, they couldn't afford a feather duster? Science20 Dec 2022 | 28
Plaice in spaaace: NASA boosts astronauts' cognition with piscine diet Study finds fruit and veg also help improve health and performance, even during space hops Science16 Dec 2022 | 15
NASA starts assessing Orion capsule for refurb Would you ride to the Moon in a sightly used spaceship? Yeah, it's got some miles on it … Science15 Dec 2022 | 20
KaRIn to hitch a ride on NASA's water-tracking sat I demand to speak to the space manager Science14 Dec 2022 | 1
Boffins hear Martian dust devils' rumbles for first time Audio recordings of local whirlwinds provide data on Mars weather, wear and tear of space hardware Science13 Dec 2022 | 3
The cubesats lost in space from Artemis Moon mission To the four out of ten that didn't make it, we salute 'em Science12 Dec 2022 | 23
As one mission returns to Earth, three more make for the Moon Japan and the United Arab Emirates launched landers, while JPL has a boring old satellite Science12 Dec 2022 | 18
NASA's Orion Moon capsule to splash down this Sunday We're about to find out if those parachutes and heat shield work Science10 Dec 2022 | 24
Peekaboo: Once-hidden galaxy revealed to be window into cosmic history For one so young, it's oddly not into heavy metal Science08 Dec 2022 | 30
NASA's COLDArm robot limb can handle seriously cool science Bofffins claim lunar manipulator is tougher than a Terminator Science06 Dec 2022 | 3
After lunar orbit trip NASA's Orion capsule is on its way back home Heat shield will be put to the test for the first time, what could go wrong? Science03 Dec 2022 | 40
NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project Being over budget, behind schedule, becoming obsolete, and impeding other projects isn't a way to get a green light Science30 Nov 2022 | 10
NASA awards $60m to Texas biz for 3D printing future Moon base Icon will have to figure out how to build a machine that uses lunar regolith and operates in lunar gravity Science29 Nov 2022 | 28
ISS resupply drops off experiments for life in deep space If we're going to go beyond the Moon, we'll need food, a way to build stuff, and health diagnostic technology Science28 Nov 2022 | 17
Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space Science25 Nov 2022 | 76
ESA names first Parastronaut: paralympian and aspiring surgeon John McFall 23,000 applied, just 17 made the list of potential crew Science25 Nov 2022 | 28