No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up Returning crew and a vital supply launch distract managers from chocolate eggs Science17 Apr 2025 | 1
Small ocean swirls may have an outsized affect on climate, NASA satellite shows SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time Science17 Apr 2025 | 3
Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer Science17 Apr 2025 | 13
20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide Science16 Apr 2025 | 9
US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door Science15 Apr 2025 | 62
White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades Houston, we have a funding problem Science14 Apr 2025 | 25
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year Science09 Apr 2025 | 29
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027 Science09 Apr 2025 | 15
Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another slip of paper entirely Science08 Apr 2025 | 31
Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth Science08 Apr 2025 | 32
Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit Science08 Apr 2025 | 56
SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts ULA wins $5.4B and Blue Origin $2.4B Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 45
NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid Heads up to those living on lunar base in 2032: DUCK!! Science05 Apr 2025 | 54
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week Science03 Apr 2025 | 7
Speech now streaming from brains in real-time Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Science02 Apr 2025 | 22
FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems Science01 Apr 2025 | 20
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' Comment What counts as failure in New Space? Science01 Apr 2025 | 43
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt Science01 Apr 2025 | 21
European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that Science31 Mar 2025 | 27
Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program Updated Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home Uncertainty is the new certainty
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair
Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips World War Fee There's a new tariff in town
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in
Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops World war fee Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?
Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses NHS boffins think there's a connection, but ‘snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous Science31 Mar 2025 | 33
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project Science29 Mar 2025 | 44
Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything Updated More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem Science28 Mar 2025 | 35
From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything Interview JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team' Science28 Mar 2025 | 12
Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to £1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative Science28 Mar 2025 | 64
ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost Science27 Mar 2025 | 20
50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors Science26 Mar 2025 | 40
Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost Science26 Mar 2025 | 31
Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that? Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission Science26 Mar 2025 | 50
Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right? Science25 Mar 2025 | 117
NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat First woman and first person of color pledges dropped Science24 Mar 2025 | 104
NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry EXCLUSIVE A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list' Applications21 Mar 2025 | 37
Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps Comment Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough? Science20 Mar 2025 | 71
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space Begun, preparation for orbital wars has Science20 Mar 2025 | 50
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense Comment Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line Science19 Mar 2025 | 75
Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout Science19 Mar 2025 | 9
Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next? Science17 Mar 2025 | 23
SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair Second time's a charm Science17 Mar 2025 | 32
Bubble trouble in hydraulics blamed for NASA and SpaceX Crew-10 scrub Trapped gas isn't just a party foul – it's a launch-stopper Science14 Mar 2025 | 20
France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 338
Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count Science14 Mar 2025 | 18
Starliner astronauts' stay drags on as Crew-10 launch scrubs Updated Hydraulic problems stop the countdown clock at T-44 minutes Science13 Mar 2025 | 35
ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in HPC13 Mar 2025 | 8
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 51
Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt? Science12 Mar 2025 | 29
Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent' Updated Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon Systems12 Mar 2025 | 65
Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital Skip the schnitzel with gravy and chips for lunch - this is an experimental device for transplant candidates Science12 Mar 2025 | 27
From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up Researchers claim efficiency boost plus reduction in environmental harm Science11 Mar 2025 | 12
Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole? COMMENT Dare mighty things ... as long as we can afford it Science11 Mar 2025 | 111
Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility Science11 Mar 2025 | 72
Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories Opinion Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos Science10 Mar 2025 | 16
Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making AI + ML08 Mar 2025 | 78
Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater Second time unlucky for Intuitive Machines, but hey, at least we got 250MB of data from it Science07 Mar 2025 | 37
Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while Edge + IoT07 Mar 2025 | 4
SpaceX's 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now 'Energetic event' did for Flight 8 after a few minutes. Super Heavy Booster recovered again, so there's that Science07 Mar 2025 | 112
Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over Space is hard. Hopefully not so hard the three rovers on this spaceship are lost Science07 Mar 2025 | 35
More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies Veteran probes close in on the half century Science06 Mar 2025 | 54
UK must give more to ESA to get benefits of space industry boom, says Brian Cox Physicist and media darling argues partnership with NASA too prone to political whim Science06 Mar 2025 | 85
Satnav systems built for Earth used by Blue Ghost lander as it approached the Moon No, your car can't navigate in space. But perhaps colonies can find their way without dedicated lunar GPS Science06 Mar 2025 | 39
Controllers getting no response from Lunar Trailblazer orbiter or Odin asteroid mining probe NASA and AstroForge missions prove Space is Hard Science05 Mar 2025 | 12
Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up 400MWh now, and 600MWh by next year? Crivens, that's a fat batt! Science05 Mar 2025 | 251
Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene Eggheads claim breakthrough in step toward making ancient beasts 'de-extinct' Science04 Mar 2025 | 46
SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing Science04 Mar 2025 | 70
The ups and down of a virtual trip to the Moon in Zero G's 727 interview But what will the parabola specialist do when spares for Boeing's classic run dry? Science04 Mar 2025 | 11
America's National Science Foundation workers fired in bulk by Trump now reinstated Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's become Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure Science04 Mar 2025 | 84
SpaceX receives FAA blessing for another Starship test Flying to the Turks and Caicos tonight? Good luck Science03 Mar 2025 | 35
Polish space agency confirms cyberattack Officials vow to uncover who was behind it Ransomware in Focus03 Mar 2025 | 4
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech Science03 Mar 2025 | 25
ESA's Integral gamma-ray gazer gasps its last After almost 23 years on the job, observations end for 2029 re-entry Science28 Feb 2025 | 7
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction Science27 Feb 2025 | 13
DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures' How to make them, and what to use them for Science27 Feb 2025 | 39
SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop All fixed for Flight Test Eight, OK? Science26 Feb 2025 | 34
The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory Science25 Feb 2025 | 9
SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland Oxygen leak blamed for a lack of deorbit burn Science24 Feb 2025 | 53
Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see Analysis Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising Science23 Feb 2025 | 261
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes Networks21 Feb 2025 | 26
Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027 Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew Science21 Feb 2025 | 136
National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future Feature An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more Science21 Feb 2025 | 141
NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan? Comment Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission Science20 Feb 2025 | 74
France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance Science20 Feb 2025 | 49
Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight Updated Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too Science19 Feb 2025 | 37
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1
Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward It's probably fine Science19 Feb 2025 | 51
Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched Science19 Feb 2025 | 24
City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth Scientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact Science18 Feb 2025 | 29
There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032 Very unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does Science17 Feb 2025 | 61
International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15 The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe Science14 Feb 2025 | 14
Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel Student shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking Science13 Feb 2025 | 27
DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real Science12 Feb 2025 | 5
James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world 40 m or 90 m? The difference matters in the case of impact Science12 Feb 2025 | 33
SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early 'Stranded' Starliner astronauts set for a March homecoming Science12 Feb 2025 | 8
Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation Einstein’s spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade Science12 Feb 2025 | 57
RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101 Obit Engineer was behind the HEC series and more Science11 Feb 2025 | 52
NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts 'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon Off-Prem11 Feb 2025 | 38
Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way Overdue, over budget and now... perhaps just over? Science10 Feb 2025 | 41
New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned Vladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years Science08 Feb 2025 | 21
Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out Funding freeze while Feds review priorities Science07 Feb 2025 | 64
NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water Disaster Recovery Week07 Feb 2025 | 22
Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Science06 Feb 2025 | 9
Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter Science05 Feb 2025 | 14