OSIRIS-REx's stuck asteroid sample canister finally cracked open by NASA Space eggheads invent tools just to get that precious dust Science23 Jan 2024 | 30
Japan recovers moon lander data, puts craft to sleep due to solar panels' bad attitude JAXA plans to reveal whether mission nailed its self-selected landing site later this week Science23 Jan 2024 | 18
Sierra Space bursts full-scale inflatable space habitat module Pop goes the test article. As planned Science22 Jan 2024 | 23
NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars Science22 Jan 2024 | 18
Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon The real SLIM's shady Science19 Jan 2024 | 47
Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon's rocky runway Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown Science18 Jan 2024 | 8
Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project Science17 Jan 2024 | 89
Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved the problem. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be Science15 Jan 2024 | 144
Crippled Peregrine lunar lander set for fiery return to Earth in matter of days Doing science and still alive ... but not for long Science15 Jan 2024 | 12
AI and robots join forces to cook up proteins faster Applications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration Science15 Jan 2024 | 3
NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom Science13 Jan 2024 | 100
Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next Heads up, this isn't about Elon Science12 Jan 2024 | 94
Chinese company's rocket debut makes waves by launching from the sea Real-life Kerbal Space Program? Science11 Jan 2024 | 2
44-year-old Voyager 2 data sheds light on solar system's magnetic personalities Magnetosheath jets found around Earth may be present on other planets after Jupiter discovery Science10 Jan 2024 | 2
Boffins demo self-eating rocket engine in Scotland Interview Roll up, roll up. See Ouroboros-3 eating its own fuselage Science10 Jan 2024 | 58
NASA's Artemis Moon missions take a rain check until 2025 and beyond No human will set foot on regolith for 2-plus years now Science10 Jan 2024 | 39
Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared Gulp! Science10 Jan 2024 | 46
Private lunar lander Peregrine mission's now measured in hours, not days UK trumpets British tech aboard doomed spacecraft Science09 Jan 2024 | 15
COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave US, Netherlands, Germany all show spikes while UK no longer collects data Science09 Jan 2024 | 166
India to launch with SpaceX's Falcon 9 for the first time ASIA IN BRIEF Also: Huawei in patent deal with Nokia, and China slates 2025 as year for mass produced flying cars Science09 Jan 2024 | 3
America's first private lunar lander suffers 'critical' fuel leak en route to Moon Updated Astrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads may be a bust Science08 Jan 2024 | 38
NASA science bound for Moon after successful Vulcan Centaur launch Your turn, Starship Science08 Jan 2024 | 13
Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere It'll also cost billions, but perhaps a price worth paying? Science07 Jan 2024 | 156
Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed An electric airplane on Mars, micrograv hibernation, and plenty others Science06 Jan 2024 | 39
It's been two decades since Spirit landed on the red sands of Mars Decades, gone in a flash: Longlived mission was almost derailed by file system whoopsie Science05 Jan 2024 | 9
India inches space program forward with launch of X-ray polarimetry satellite Meanwhile, ISRO chief sets sights on next crewed mission Science03 Jan 2024 | 10
Brain boffins think they've found the data format we use to store images as memories No, you aren't special - we're probably all visual learners Science02 Jan 2024 | 59
Juno's joyride around Jupiter snaps stellar shots of Io 'Magnificent' image shows violent volcanic surface Science02 Jan 2024 | 7
US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting Yields could double next year – provided the budget is passed Science02 Jan 2024 | 27
NASA's VIPER is half-built, with launch plans for this year Ice, ice maybe – water-seeking lunar trundlebot overcomes iffy connectors Science02 Jan 2024 | 10
Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap In-depth As we argue over freeing ourselves from fossil fuels, can SRM buy us time to develop green energy we need? Science30 Dec 2023 | 243
NASA Juno probe to produce 'firehose of data' during close flyby of Jupiter moon Io, Io, it's off to work we go Science28 Dec 2023 | 21
30 years and still sunbathing: SOHO probe continues work as a space weatherman Space Extenders II From the cutting edge of physics research to a valuable monitoring tool Science26 Dec 2023 | 15
ESA's Mars Express continues to avoid retirement home Space Extenders II Another chunk of science, another mission extension. But probe is running on fumes Science24 Dec 2023 | 34
Danish techies claim they can predict your next move (and your last) Life's a vector, then you die Science20 Dec 2023 | 29
Long-delayed Ariane 6 rocket is 'ready to go' – hopefully – says European Space Agency Latest launch sim went off without a hitch. An upper stage test, not so much Science20 Dec 2023 | 2
To infinity and ... just over the Atlantic Soul searching in the wake of Virgin Orbit failure Science19 Dec 2023 | 24
Halley's Comet has begun its long trek back toward Earth Mark your diary for 2061 – if you're over the disappointment of 1986's fuzzy blob Science18 Dec 2023 | 24
Shame about those wildfires. We'll just let the fossil fuel giants off the hook, then? Comment As world heads into 2024, scientists are asked: When will Big Oil face the heat? Science16 Dec 2023 | 198
Missing tomatoes ketchup with ISS crew after almost a year lost in space Sadly not saucy enough in this state for return trip to Earth Science15 Dec 2023 | 32
England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters Another Johnson era fantasy fails to survive its encounter with science, engineering and economics Science15 Dec 2023 | 230
NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish Science and telemetry data hit by latest issue Science14 Dec 2023 | 164
Solar wind gave Mars a breather and its magnetosphere inflated NASA's long-lived MAVEN probe was there taking notes Science13 Dec 2023 | 8
NASA celebrates Perseverance Rover's 1000th Martian day with lakebed history lesson As its companion helicopter plans its furthest flight yet Science13 Dec 2023 | 17
British railway system is getting another excuse for delays – solar storms Let's choo-choo-choose safety, folks Science12 Dec 2023 | 78
China's SpaceX wannabe recycles a rocket after just 38 days Interstellar Glory Space Technology gets a boost – even though it's yet to reach orbit Science12 Dec 2023 | 36
Another day, another delay to first Vulcan Centaur launch Mission to the Moon likely to slip to 2024 following dress rehearsal issues Science11 Dec 2023 | 6
NASA pushes back timing of ISS deorbit vehicle contract Proposals now due in 2024 for a launch 5 years later Science10 Dec 2023 | 30
Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation Science08 Dec 2023 | 27
Hubble Space Telescope is back in the game after NASA fixes gyro glitch No repair mission required – for now Science08 Dec 2023 | 23
Chinese boffins pitch quadcopter for Mars sample return mission In the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind Science07 Dec 2023 | 14
Iran launches 'biological capsule' to low Earth orbit Precursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals Science07 Dec 2023 | 8
Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Science06 Dec 2023 | 12
Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Science06 Dec 2023 | 10
NASA engineers got their parachute wires crossed for OSIRIS-REx mission 'Inconsistent wiring label definitions' resulted in drogue being cut before it was deployed Science06 Dec 2023 | 25
'Wobbly spacetime' is latest stab at unifying physics Grudge match between quantum mechanics and general relativity attracts new effort to find harmony Science06 Dec 2023 | 81
India's Moon mission pulled off another trick: an experimental orbital sequel Swift software development effort saw Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module make an unexpected return to Earth Science06 Dec 2023 | 4
Half a century ago, NASA's Pioneer 10 visited Jupiter, then just kept going And going and going until the probe squeaked its last in 2003 Science05 Dec 2023 | 10
UK immigration rules hit science just as it rejoins €100B Horizon program Salary regs could limit the hiring of postdocs from abroad Science05 Dec 2023 | 143
Branson's wallet snaps shut for Virgin Galactic Suborbital space tourism outfit to move forward without beardy bailouts Science05 Dec 2023 | 27