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 | 22
SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair Second time's a charm Science17 Mar 2025 | 28
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 | 19
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 | 317
Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count Science14 Mar 2025 | 17
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 | 50
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 | 110
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
Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied Maddening techno bass loop, Zoolander reference, and 14 minutes of time wasted
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway
Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co's lawsuit
GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23,000 projects Large organizations among those cleaning up the mess
Developer wrote a critical app and forgot where it ran – until it stopped running Who, Me? What comes after testing in the software development lifecycle? Aaah, never mind ... let's skip to maintenance
DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl
Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying 'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture
'Dead simple' hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat 'now actively exploited in the wild' Updated One PUT request, one poisoned session file, and the server’s yours
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots
UK wants dirt on data brokers before criminals get there first Govt yearns to learn mistakes of serially breached record holders so it can, er, liberalize data sharing regs
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 | 249
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 | 83
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 Science07 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
Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers Science05 Feb 2025 | 24
Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024 More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 31
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push Science03 Feb 2025 | 17
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price Special report Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that? Science02 Feb 2025 | 227
'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk Sunita Williams lays claim to lead for female EVAs Science31 Jan 2025 | 27
European Space Agency picks Thales Alenia Space to build lunar lander ESA and the Argonauts Science31 Jan 2025 | 10
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032 Video Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly Science31 Jan 2025 | 75
A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing Science30 Jan 2025 | 30
And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report Science30 Jan 2025 | 22
Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts SpaceX was already planning to return 'virtually abandoned' astros. Did Elon forget? Science29 Jan 2025 | 93
40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later Science28 Jan 2025 | 38
Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid Without central repository for artificial objects, it'll only get worse Offbeat27 Jan 2025 | 55
Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line Science24 Jan 2025 | 17
NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans Science22 Jan 2025 | 14
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that Science22 Jan 2025 | 74
Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Science22 Jan 2025 | 30
Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation Science21 Jan 2025 | 9
Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars Comment So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have? Science21 Jan 2025 | 166
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment' Science20 Jan 2025 | 22
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper Gaia makes its final science observation Science18 Jan 2025 | 11
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris Science17 Jan 2025 | 118
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered Science16 Jan 2025 | 60
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter Science16 Jan 2025 | 14
SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace? Science15 Jan 2025 | 22
Blue Origin gives up on New Glenn lift-off, 2 hours into launch window Updated Vehicle subsystem concerns blamed for scrub Science13 Jan 2025 | 35
Blue Origin postpones New Glenn's maiden flight to January 12 Now set for the day before SpaceX's next Starship test Science10 Jan 2025 | 50
NASA's lunar Roomba set to suck up Moon dirt for study Collecting regolith samples with a blast of gas Science09 Jan 2025 | 21
Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed Updated Crews battle to keep people, homes, science safe Science08 Jan 2025 | 62
NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options left JPL's sky crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7B contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA Science08 Jan 2025 | 10
DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research Updated Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction Research08 Jan 2025 | 24
Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station Carefully crafted wooden box, LignoSat, is on its own Science08 Jan 2025 | 48
First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10 Bezos booster finally ready for action Science07 Jan 2025 | 21
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 57
SpaceX will try satellite deployment on next Starship test Ten suborbital Starlink simulators to be flung from Musk's spacecraft Science06 Jan 2025 | 71
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second You may not need that high-bandwidth brain-computer interface Science01 Jan 2025 | 92