NASA's mini-spacecraft CAPSTONE just launched into lunar orbit
25kg CubeSat the size of a bar fridge will plot course for Gateway space station, pave way for human boots on Moon
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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 | 4
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 | 54
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 | 86
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 | 58
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
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
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Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools
Analysis It's good to highlight some alternatives, but security issues are overblown
Behold this drone-dropping rifle with two-mile range
Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer
You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too
Who, Me? But I was only following the procedures!
Singapore promises 'brutal and unrelentingly hard' action on dodgy crypto players
But welcomes fast cross-border payments in central bank digital currencies
Intel is running rings around AMD and Arm at the edge
Analysis What will it take to loosen the x86 giant's edge stranglehold?
Software-defined silicon is coming for telecom kit later this year
Interview Startup EdgeQ believes pay-for-what-you-use model will make 5G transition more cost-effective
Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive
Opinion Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back
Contractor loses entire Japanese city's personal data in USB fail
In brief Also, Chrome add-ons are great for fingerprinting, and hacked hot tubs splurge details
IBM settles age discrimination case that sought top execs' emails
Just days after being ordered to provide messages, Big Blue opts out of public trial
Zendesk sold to private investors two weeks after saying it would stay public
Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds
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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
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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 | 148
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
Watchdog rejects complaint over NASA IT contract
$1.8bn deal not tainted by ex-agency consultant, auditor finds
Science24 Feb 2022 | 5
Gas cloud around galactic nucleus reveals unified view of center
It's all about perspective
Science16 Feb 2022 | 8
NASA's InSight probe emerges from Mars dust storm
Plucky probe exceeded expectations. What's your excuse for that keyboard?
Science10 Feb 2022 | 47
Joint European Torus more than doubles fusion record with 59 megajoules
Next stop, ITER?
Science09 Feb 2022 | 123
Geomagnetic storm takes out 40 of 49 brand new Starlink satellites
SpaceX launched even though the space weatherman predicted tricky conditions could follow a solar flare
Science09 Feb 2022 | 119
