25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS
All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30
Science07 Nov 2025 | 53
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Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
PaaS + IaaS06 Nov 2025 | 29
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn
Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services
Science06 Nov 2025 | 30
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship
Science06 Nov 2025 | 35
Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA
Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 47
Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters
Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit
Off-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 28
ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews
Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch
Science03 Nov 2025 | 25
SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship
NASA is short of options when it comes to alternatives
Science31 Oct 2025 | 81
Japan’s new space truck is also a temporary space lab, just worked first time
HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS
Science31 Oct 2025 | 19
Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation
More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery
Science28 Oct 2025 | 15
Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm
How many 1080p screens can you fit on a pinhead? These German physicists reckon about one
Science27 Oct 2025 | 23
How do you solve a problem like Discovery?
Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US?
Offbeat24 Oct 2025 | 194
Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales seek to 'strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy in space'
Science23 Oct 2025 | 6
Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles
Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public
Science23 Oct 2025 | 90
SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition
Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers
Science21 Oct 2025 | 113
Brit boffins teach fusion plasma some manners with 3D magnetic field
MAST Upgrade team claims first suppression of pesky edge instabilities in a spherical tokamak
Science21 Oct 2025 | 38
Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters
Now try a jet engine in a bedstead before strapping into a Starship
Science20 Oct 2025 | 13
Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit
NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype
PaaS + IaaS17 Oct 2025 | 3
MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise
'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise
Science17 Oct 2025 | 10
Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity
Energy secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters
On-Prem17 Oct 2025 | 131
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Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them
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When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors
52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
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They have no need to prove their bonafides
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Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
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Axiom Space ejects CEO after six months, installs NASA veteran as replacement
Updated Jonathan Cirtain at the helm as revolving door swings for private corp
Science16 Oct 2025 | 8
SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb
Comment Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing
Science16 Oct 2025 | 121
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building
US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science
Science14 Oct 2025 | 43
SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement
Updated Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await
Science13 Oct 2025 | 29
Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual
Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteries
Science11 Oct 2025 | 76
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity
Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos
Science10 Oct 2025 | 23
Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian'
Exclusive Houston, we have a custody battle
Science09 Oct 2025 | 115
Mars’ powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions
Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA’s veteran orbiters
Science08 Oct 2025 | 21
Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle
Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off – allegedly
Science08 Oct 2025 | 149
How chatbots are coaching vulnerable users into crisis
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AI + ML08 Oct 2025 | 21
Trio who made foundational quantum computing discovery bag Nobel physics prize
Studies at UC Berkeley in the 1980s paved the way for quantum computing and cryptography
Science07 Oct 2025 | 1
Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere
Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell
Science06 Oct 2025 | 79
Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told
Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking
Science02 Oct 2025 | 202
Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath
Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress
Science02 Oct 2025 | 4
Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks
IAC 2025 Stray signals are a no-no when you’re trying to tune into the stars
On-Prem02 Oct 2025 | 52
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13
Once more with feeling...
Science01 Oct 2025 | 26
Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap
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Geek's Guide01 Oct 2025 | 15
Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron
UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication
Science30 Sep 2025 | 6
Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes
Company faces a setback on the test stand
Science30 Sep 2025 | 2
NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat
DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark
Science30 Sep 2025 | 5
Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort
If at first you don't succeed, you might be SpaceX
Science29 Sep 2025 | 41
NASA administrator says US should have ‘village’ on Moon in a decade
IAC 2025 The Register is at the world’s biggest space gabfest and just heard the world's top 6 space agency leaders speak
Science29 Sep 2025 | 35
NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings
Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all
Science26 Sep 2025 | 12
SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost
Meanwhile, Katalyst wins $30M contract to stop Swift telescope falling out of the sky
Science26 Sep 2025 | 18
Tree-hugging hippie datacenter runs entirely on green hydrogen and wastes zero water
Lambda's latest innovation with bit barn builder ECL only supports a handful of Nvidia racks, but it's a start
Systems24 Sep 2025 | 34
Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones
21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff
AI + ML23 Sep 2025 | 99
NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan
Safety watchdog doubts SpaceX can ready HLS in time for 2027 Artemis mission
Science22 Sep 2025 | 70
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil
It's one small sip for man...
Science22 Sep 2025 | 77
Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself
It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier
Science19 Sep 2025 | 12
Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants
Judge rules there’s no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out
Science19 Sep 2025 | 19
Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year ‘Dawn’ mission
Thanks for the memories, Akatsuki
Science19 Sep 2025 | 12
AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either
Inject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing
Science18 Sep 2025 | 33
Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy
Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'
Science17 Sep 2025 | 6
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say
Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing – a bit like people, really
Science16 Sep 2025 | 21
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists
That's optimistic based on progress so far
Science16 Sep 2025 | 53
Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA
We remind the world yet again that science fiction is usually a warning, not an aspiration
Science15 Sep 2025 | 33
Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide
Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back
Networks15 Sep 2025 | 49
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Opinion There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors
Science15 Sep 2025 | 53
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart
But it reads at about the speed of punch cards
Storage12 Sep 2025 | 6
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again
Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems
Science12 Sep 2025 |
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen
Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop
Science12 Sep 2025 | 11
US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream
That won't even warm the plasma
Science11 Sep 2025 | 13
NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks, even Zoom calls
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons why
Security11 Sep 2025 | 47
NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far
The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped
Science10 Sep 2025 | 46
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus
Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness
Science07 Sep 2025 | 76
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype
Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI
Personal Tech05 Sep 2025 | 7
SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit
But what goes up will also have to come down
Science04 Sep 2025 | 17
Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again
Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blame
Science04 Sep 2025 | 72
UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government
ARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back
Science04 Sep 2025 | 6
Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited
New Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator
Science03 Sep 2025 | 59
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty
Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff
Science01 Sep 2025 | 72
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University
Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases
Science01 Sep 2025 | 28
ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections
Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun
Science01 Sep 2025 | 2
AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
Science31 Aug 2025 | 18
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build
700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles
Science29 Aug 2025 | 11
Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart
Company cleared to launch again after April failure
Science28 Aug 2025 | 3
Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10
Explosions all expected and on schedule this time
Science27 Aug 2025 | 79
Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban
World War Fee 'They have to give us magnets'
Science26 Aug 2025 | 131
ESA engineers trace anomaly in silent Juice spacecraft to a bug in the code
Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus looms
Science26 Aug 2025 | 20
Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX?
We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!
Science26 Aug 2025 | 86
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative
Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative
Science25 Aug 2025 | 55
Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet
Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings
Science22 Aug 2025 | 17
IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums
Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids
AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 11
Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back
Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean
Science22 Aug 2025 | 32
Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry
Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined
Science20 Aug 2025 | 12
NASA starts bolting together Artemis III rocket for 2027 Moon shot
Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth
Science19 Aug 2025 | 50
China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk
Single spacesuit now worn 20 times
Science19 Aug 2025 | 7
Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030
More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge
Science18 Aug 2025 | 65
Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel
Got a particle accelerator? Here’s your tritium startup idea
Science18 Aug 2025 | 24
Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy
P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds
Science18 Aug 2025 | 37
SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test
If at first you succeed, keep trying until you don't
Science18 Aug 2025 | 54
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon?
You have until Thursday August 21 to respond if you do
Science15 Aug 2025 | 27
Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme?
US DoE names firms for Pilot Program to show how it could be done
Science14 Aug 2025 | 55
Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins
Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts
Offbeat14 Aug 2025 | 22
NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit
Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays
Science13 Aug 2025 | 7
Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room
First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor
Science13 Aug 2025 | 10
UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly'
Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation
Science12 Aug 2025 | 63
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit
Obit Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97
Science11 Aug 2025 | 18
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study
Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins
Science11 Aug 2025 | 21
China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests
Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030
Science11 Aug 2025 | 11
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