China says it has photographed all of Mars from orbit Enjoy the slideshow from Tianwen's orbital adventures Science30 Jun 2022 | 5
City-killing asteroid won't hit Earth in 2052 after all ESA ruins our day with some bad news Science29 Jun 2022 | 19
NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth Consumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum Science29 Jun 2022 | 33
Chinese boffins suggest launching nuclear Neptune orbiter in 2030 All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together, use them in peace Science29 Jun 2022 | 47
Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too Science28 Jun 2022 | 105
NASA's mini-spacecraft CAPSTONE just launched on its journey to the Moon 25kg CubeSat the size of a bar fridge will plot course for Gateway space station, pave way for human boots on Moon Science28 Jun 2022 | 5
Returning to the Moon on the European Service Module Interview Moving to series production and dealing with the US, where things are done slightly differently Science28 Jun 2022 | 34
Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left this weird double crater Pic NASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk Science25 Jun 2022 | 58
NASA circles August in its diary to put Artemis I capsule in Moon orbit First steps by humans to recapture planet's natural satellite Science24 Jun 2022 | 19
NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 Space boffins task engineers with creating 40kW lunar fission plant that can operate for ten years Science24 Jun 2022 | 91
Bipolar transistors made from organic materials for the first time Move over silicon – digital circuits have a flexible new friend Science23 Jun 2022 | 71
Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize... Mega-corp insists it's all about 'people and technology working safely and harmoniously together' Science22 Jun 2022 | 57
NASA ignores InSight's battery woes in pursuit of data Space boffins: Nevermind ekeing out the battery, let it go out in a blaze of glory! Science22 Jun 2022 | 6
Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years And over millions of miles, too. Piece of cake!? Science22 Jun 2022 | 51
Liftoff at last for South Korean space program Satellite-deploying rocket finally launches – after a few setbacks Science22 Jun 2022 | 4
AWS buys before it tries with quantum networking center Fundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help Science22 Jun 2022 | 5
NASA tricks Artemis launch computer by masking data showing a leak Plus it aborts ISS reboost. Not the greatest start to the week, was it? Science21 Jun 2022 | 19
NASA's SOFIA aircraft preps for final flights ahead of mission end With operations deadline in September, team eager to squeeze more data out of infrared observatory Science20 Jun 2022 | 12
SpaceX reportedly fires staffers behind open letter criticising Elon Musk Asked for equitable treatment and a boss that doesn't embarrass them Science17 Jun 2022 | 105
SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why Science16 Jun 2022 | 81
NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth Consumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum
Ditching VMware over the Broadcom buy? Here are some of your options Opinion What's your contingency plan?
AMD targeted by RansomHouse, attackers claim to have '450Gb' in stolen data Relative cybercrime newbies not clear on whether they're alleging to have gigabits or gigabytes of chip biz files
PowerShell pusher to log off from Microsoft: Write-Host "Bye bye, Jeffrey Snover" 'If you ever were rooting for somebody, please do him a favor and go tell him'
Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too
Arm says its Cortex-X3 CPU smokes this Intel laptop silicon Chip design house reveals brains of what might be your next ultralight notebook
FBI warning: Crooks are using deepfake videos in interviews for remote gigs Yes. Of course I human. Why asking? Also, when you give passwords to database?
Trio accused of selling $88m of pirated Avaya licenses Rogue insider generated keys, resold them to blow the cash on gold, crypto, and more, prosecutors say
California's attempt to protect kids online could end adults' internet anonymity Websites may be forced to verify ages of visitors unless changes made
McKinsey thinks quantum computing could create $80b in revenue ... eventually Figure is 'value at stake' but 'not the actual value' which itself is a quantum statement Science16 Jun 2022 | 4
South Korea's space ambitions stuck on the launchpad Second Nuri rocket stalls with problem similar to those that caused first mission to mostly fail Science16 Jun 2022 | 6
SpaceX and OneWeb bury the satellite constellation hatchet Will play nicely in Earth orbit Science15 Jun 2022 | 4
If you want to launch Starship from Texas, here's some homework, FAA tells SpaceX Be a good neighbor to folks and the environment, and we'll think that permit over Science14 Jun 2022 | 22
Astra fails, sends NASA's Tropics weather satellites back to Earth Orbital success counter stuck at 2 as upper stage of rocket shuts down early and CubeSats lost Science13 Jun 2022 | 9
NASA to commission independent UFO study The truth is out there, and the space agency intends to find it – scientifically Science10 Jun 2022 | 28
Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried Science09 Jun 2022 | 77
Photonic processor can classify millions of images faster than you can blink We ask again: Has science gone too far? Science08 Jun 2022 | 50
Japan's asteroid probe reportedly found 20 amino acids They're the stuff of life, so the fact they're floating around out there is very exciting Science07 Jun 2022 | 70
Why chasing the AI dragon may force big tech to take sustainability seriously Comment Carbon offsets don't make you green when your datacenters are still rolling coal Science06 Jun 2022 | 14
Brute force and whiskey: The solution to all life's problems Who, Me? Just make sure to drink it AFTER the rocket has successfully launched Science06 Jun 2022 | 81
Small nuclear reactors produce '35x more waste' than big plants Updated At least one manufacturer would like to disagree with study's conclusions Science02 Jun 2022 | 203
Researchers claim quantum device performs 9,000-year calculation in microseconds In Gaussian boson sampling at least, quantum supremecy is here Science02 Jun 2022 | 35
Algorithm spots 104 asteroids in huge piles of data Rocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code Science01 Jun 2022 | 13
Fusion won't avert need for climate change 'sacrifice', says nuclear energy expert But the potentially abundant, if distant, source of sustainable energy could offer hope Science31 May 2022 | 125
NASA's 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain Video Ingenuity footage sent back to Earth via Perseverance, despite looming battery problem Science30 May 2022 | 35
Quantum internet within grasp as scientists show off entanglement demo Teleportation of quantum information key to future secure data transfer Science29 May 2022 | 29
World’s smallest remote-controlled robots are smaller than a flea Video So small, you can't feel it crawl Science27 May 2022 | 34
Boeing's Starliner CST-100 on its way to the ISS 2 years late A couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station Science20 May 2022 | 64
Voyager 1 space probe producing ‘anomalous telemetry data’ Engineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency Science19 May 2022 | 116
NASA's InSight doomed as Mars dust coats solar panels The little lander that couldn't (any longer) Science18 May 2022 | 57
Rocket Lab is taking NASA's CAPSTONE to the Moon Mission to lunar orbit is further than any Photon satellite bus has gone before Science17 May 2022 | 8
Lithium production needs investment to keep pace with battery demand Report says $42b will need to be poured into industry over next decade Science16 May 2022 | 17
D-Wave deploys first US-based Advantage quantum system For those that want to keep their data in the homeland Science15 May 2022 | 10
Pictured: Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way We speak to scientists involved in historic first snap – and no, this isn't the M87* Science14 May 2022 | 56
BMW looks to quantum computers to speed R&D Pasqal to provide compute based on approaches by Qu&Co acquisition Science12 May 2022 | 16
The future is unwritten, but here’s how you can start preparing for it right now Shivvy Jervis kicks off Lenovo’s futurist keynote series this month Sponsored Post
Aerospace biz Orbex shows off a prototype Prime on its Scottish stand What goes up will also come down. The question is... how? Science11 May 2022 | 5
Astra Space to launch satellites from Shetland Rockets could fly from the UK as soon as next year Science10 May 2022 | 11
Mars Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance are talking again NASA drops heater temp to boost batteries as dust hits solar supply Science09 May 2022 | 33
Human-made hopper out-leaps rival robots in artificial jumping contest Applications in lunar exploration and Earth-bound locomotion are possible Science01 May 2022 | 29
Quantum-tunneling memory could boost AI energy efficiency by 100x Boffins get excited about building better machine synapses Science01 May 2022 | 2
Worried about being replaced by a robot? Become a physicist Scientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm Science30 Apr 2022 | 56
NASA's modified Boeing 747 SP SOFIA to be grounded for good Final flight of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be in 2022 Science29 Apr 2022 | 25
MIT's thin plastic speakers fall flat. And that's by design Video The walls are alive with the sound of music Science29 Apr 2022 | 35
Rocket Lab to attempt mid-air recovery of descending booster Doing anything Friday night? Fancy watching someone try to catch a rocket with a helicopter? Science28 Apr 2022 | 29
Could a leaky capacitor be at fault on ESA's Sentinel-1B? Prepare your 'turn it off and on' jokes as engineers get ready to flip the heaters Science25 Apr 2022 | 27
US Space Force unit to monitor region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit Team America: Solar System Police Science23 Apr 2022 | 84
Take this $15m and make us some ultra-energy-efficient superconductor chips, scientists told A fair price to get everyone to stop talking about Moore's Law for good Science22 Apr 2022 | 21
Engineers up the torque to get Lucy's solar array latched Nobody wants flappy bits during an engine burn of Trojan asteroid explorer Science22 Apr 2022 | 14
Space Launch System dress rehearsal canceled for repairs If at first you don't succeed... you're probably NASA Science19 Apr 2022 | 30
ESA: Fly me to the Moon, just not on a Russian rocket Payloads pulled as Europe eyes alternatives Science14 Apr 2022 | 16
Intel ships mystery quantum hardware to national lab Argonne boffinry nerve-center is building a qubit computer with x86 giant Inside Science13 Apr 2022 | 9
The Register gets up close and personal with ESA's JUICE spacecraft Feature Next stop, French Guiana. Then Jupiter Science11 Apr 2022 | 14
Scientists make spin ice breakthrough Artificial spin ice with smallest features ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC Science09 Apr 2022 | 10
SpaceX launches first totally private mission to the International Space Station Saturday rendezvous planned for historic commercial orbit ride Science08 Apr 2022 | 29
Newly released Space Force data could save life on Earth Goodness, gracious, lots of insights on great balls of fire Science08 Apr 2022 | 13
Direct lithium extraction technique for greener batteries gains traction Special method for production gets cash injection from govt, vendors Science08 Apr 2022 | 37
First Light says it's hit nuclear fusion breakthrough with no fancy lasers, magnets We talk to CEO about projectile-based implosion design Science07 Apr 2022 | 149
DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world A new arms race emerges Science06 Apr 2022 | 67
ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite narrowly dodges debris Who left that bit of rocket there? It's getting a bit crowded in orbit Science04 Apr 2022 | 31
Boston Dynamics' latest robot is a warehouse workhorse When does this thing get to unionize? Science02 Apr 2022 | 37
Scientists repurpose hoverfly vision to detect drones by sound Video It's a bug's life Science02 Apr 2022 | 18
Terra Quantum nets $75m for cryptography, security work Ferroelectric devices key for this qubit-slinging startup Science01 Apr 2022 | 2
NASA astronaut returns to Earth on a Russian Soyuz Mission launched during a pandemic, returned during... oh God, what now? Science30 Mar 2022 | 11
Wozniak startup to share orbital space junk data Privateer to help avoid collisions and more debris around our planet Science28 Mar 2022 | 15
NASA will award contract for second lunar lander to a biz that's not SpaceX 'Competition is critical to our success,' says US agency boss Science26 Mar 2022 | 37
Russia's Mir space station returned to Earth 21 years ago The project lives on as part of the ISS – but for how much longer? Science23 Mar 2022 | 8
Oxidation-proof copper could replace gold, meaning cheaper chips, says prof One hopes this won't hike the price of Cu Science22 Mar 2022 | 47
Take this $715,000 and find security gaps in quantum computers, says NSF Yes, the ones that don't exist yet Science18 Mar 2022 | 24
Hear us out: Smartphone lidar can test blood, milk Using tiny samples, too, a claim we're sure you haven't heard before Science18 Mar 2022 | 34
ExoMars rover launch axed over Russia tensions ESA will need to source a different rocket, lander, and descent stage in time for next window in 2024 Science17 Mar 2022 | 32
UK space firm Skyrora opens rocket testing site in Scotland Brit rocketeers get ever closer to that first launch from UK soil Science17 Mar 2022 | 10
Ukraine's nuclear plants: Chernobyl off diesel power, explosions explained To the satisfaction of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at least Science16 Mar 2022 | 27
Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying Ingenuity's Earth-side coding team has expanded, and so has its rover-assistance mission Science16 Mar 2022 | 14
Pioneer 10 turns 50: Remembering humankind's first jaunt to Jupiter Feature We sent it off 'to tweak a dragon's tail, and it did that and more' Science15 Mar 2022 | 28
Microsoft claims breakthrough in quantum computer system If true, Redmond is capable sustaining a stable working environment somewhere after all Science14 Mar 2022 | 35
Congress earmarks cash for fusion energy development When it comes to smashing atoms, things are really starting to heat up Science14 Mar 2022 | 8
Next-gen Moon buggy FLEX conquers California desert, seeks lunar speed record Astrolab up against competition but has secret weapon: Cosmic crooner Chris Hadfield Science12 Mar 2022 | 23
Germany bankrolls effort to build home-grown quantum systems With millions of euros, we'll do you a QSolid, say scientists Science11 Mar 2022 | 12
NASA awaits approval of $24bn 2022 budget A billion here, a billion there, after a while it starts adding up to real money Science10 Mar 2022 | 14
Risk-based algorithm could improve cancer screenings This time the intelligence is not artificial Science09 Mar 2022 | 9
PsiQuantum envisions a datacenter-sized quantum computer We're promised less science fiction, more contemporary hardware Science08 Mar 2022 | 10
Chinese rocket junk may have just smashed into Moon Details still up in the air, unlike whatever hit our natural satellite Science04 Mar 2022 | 46
Fujitsu claims world leadership in headache management For actual headaches, not tech messes, but hasn't said why its staff have a problem that needed tackling Science04 Mar 2022 | 14
Europe's largest nuclear plant on fire after Russian attack Updated What to know and what not to panic about Science04 Mar 2022 | 131
OneWeb drops launches from Russia's Baikonur spaceport One day after Roscosmos said 'hostile' UK govt should withdraw stake in satellite firm Science03 Mar 2022 | 58
Harvard, MIT, Berkeley are still fighting over genome-editing patents. Now another ruling Who says organic chemistry doesn't have its drama? Science02 Mar 2022 | 7
ESA-Russia Mars rover launch on ice after Ukraine invasion Rosalind Franklin can't catch a break Science01 Mar 2022 | 6
Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched Government said to be looking further north than the Oxford-Cambridge Arc Science28 Feb 2022 | 91