SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing
Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages
Science23 Apr 2024 | 21
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Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory
All from billions of miles away
Science23 Apr 2024 | 39
FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch
Commercial operators must try Varda
Science22 Apr 2024 | 9
A knotty problem: Boffins working on fuel-efficient trajectories for space travel
Not yet the London Underground style efficient schematic we want, but it's a start
Science20 Apr 2024 | 26
NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth
Updated Look out for a new star next week
Science19 Apr 2024 | 21
NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope
Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts
Science18 Apr 2024 | 12
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data
One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed'
Science18 Apr 2024 | 21
Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas
Video If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished
Science17 Apr 2024 | 23
NASA confirms nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan
Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034
Science17 Apr 2024 | 13
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip
Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models
Systems16 Apr 2024 | 6
NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack
Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home?
Science16 Apr 2024 | 38
NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground
Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks
Science16 Apr 2024 | 42
NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away
Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software
Science15 Apr 2024 | 14
Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions
Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial
Systems11 Apr 2024 | 15
Peter Higgs, daddy of the Higgs boson, dies at 94
Obituary The particle bearing his name lives on
Science10 Apr 2024 | 13
CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024
2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap
Public Sector10 Apr 2024 | 16
Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic
Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality
Networks09 Apr 2024 | 25
Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves
Study finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation
Science07 Apr 2024 | 18
Blue Origin to fly another 90-year-old into outer space
Ed Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket
Science05 Apr 2024 | 23
NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover
At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive
Science04 Apr 2024 | 13
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Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS
Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam
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Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7
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Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory
All from billions of miles away
Old Windows print spooler bug is latest target of Russia's Fancy Bear gang
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If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?
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US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
Over a million Neighbourhood Watch members exposed through web app bug
Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process
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65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts
The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for'
Science04 Apr 2024 | 16
Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens
3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time'
Science04 Apr 2024 | 48
US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone
What's a few microseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually
Science03 Apr 2024 | 60
Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries
Chinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right
Science03 Apr 2024 | 29
Japan's moon lander sparks joy by making it through a second lunar night
Brief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery
Science02 Apr 2024 | 4
Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue
Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues
On-Prem28 Mar 2024 | 29
NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense
Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics
Science27 Mar 2024 | 6
Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic
Updated Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills
Science27 Mar 2024 | 9
Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear
100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth
Science26 Mar 2024 | 18
Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets
This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators
Science22 Mar 2024 | 78
World's first Neuralink patient enjoying online chess, long Civ 6 sessions
While excited by the implant, Noland Arbaugh says it's not perfect and there's still work to be done
Science21 Mar 2024 | 12
DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with drafting lunar train blueprints
Um. Let's successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite?
Science20 Mar 2024 | 63
Euclid space telescope needs de-icing
Warm water and a scraper not an option when you're 1.5 million kilometers from home
Science20 Mar 2024 | 12
European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale
Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space
Science20 Mar 2024 | 44
Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off
Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date
Science19 Mar 2024 | 13
Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage
Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source
Science14 Mar 2024 | 58
Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship
Booster hit the water hard and monster rocket lost during re-entry, but otherwise a success!
Science14 Mar 2024 | 128
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers
Science14 Mar 2024 | 101
Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions
Video KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad
Science13 Mar 2024 | 17
NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble
But Artemis is still OK, so that's alright then
Science12 Mar 2024 | 9
Stratolaunch's air-launched test vehicle hits supersonic speed
TA-1 test ticks off all the primary objectives, but hypersonic flight will have to wait
Science11 Mar 2024 | 8
UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers
Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk?
Science11 Mar 2024 | 40
An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer
Interview Chatting to Anmol Taploo about the race to develop tech for satellites
Science09 Mar 2024 | 58
Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth
'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive
Science08 Mar 2024 | 45
Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too
With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense
Science07 Mar 2024 | 6
Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries
Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027
Science07 Mar 2024 | 23
Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open
Time flies for The Flies
Science06 Mar 2024 | 4
Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help
Roscosmos has had a few problems landing on the lunar surface recently
Science06 Mar 2024 | 26
Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon
To detect seismic waves, silly
Science06 Mar 2024 | 24
NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies
Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August
Science06 Mar 2024 | 4
Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected
Less abundant molecular oxygen narrow chances of life being found on Jupiter's icy moon
Science05 Mar 2024 | 21
NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas
OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs?
Science04 Mar 2024 | 2
NASA's Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board
The tech just isn't ready and clunky collab with ESA isn't helping, auditor finds
Science04 Mar 2024 | 18
The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out
'Farewell' snap revealed by Intuitive Machines amid hope solar-powered craft may one day spring to life again
Science02 Mar 2024 | 37
Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air
Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up
Science29 Feb 2024 | 19
New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners
Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution
Science28 Feb 2024 | 55
Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side
Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander
Science27 Feb 2024 | 25
FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again
You've heard of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. How about an energetic engine failure?
Science27 Feb 2024 | 60
ESA's ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted
Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent
Science27 Feb 2024 | 6
Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap
How's that for resilient?
Science27 Feb 2024 | 14
72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics
Perseverance images show violent end to Ingenuity's final flight
Science26 Feb 2024 | 23
Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell
Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now
Science26 Feb 2024 | 33
Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science
Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry
Science23 Feb 2024 | 7
NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too
No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday
Science23 Feb 2024 | 19
Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told
Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident
Science23 Feb 2024 | 41
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing
Updated It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part
Science22 Feb 2024 | 8
Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed
Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency
Science20 Feb 2024 | 23
Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage
Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering
Science19 Feb 2024 | 11
Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground
Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency
Science19 Feb 2024 | 36
Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable
Opinion Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around?
Science19 Feb 2024 | 297
Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G
Updated One giant leap for astronaut medicine
Science16 Feb 2024 | 12
OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped
121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once
Science16 Feb 2024 | 28
NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space
Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times
Science16 Feb 2024 | 9
Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket
Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes
Science15 Feb 2024 | 3
WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age
The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover
Science15 Feb 2024 | 16
NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission?
Ready for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court
Science14 Feb 2024 | 18
Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason
The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group has just given 29 space rocks names
Science13 Feb 2024 | 44
Japan's space program seeks reboot with Wednesday launch
Second test flight for failed H3 booster after a run of bad luck
Science12 Feb 2024 | 6
50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth
Around The World in 84 days
Science10 Feb 2024 | 11
Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high
Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035
Science09 Feb 2024 | 40
NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite
'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter
Science09 Feb 2024 | 6
Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery
2 MWh of energy storage using dirt, winches, and cables set to be installed in Finland
Science08 Feb 2024 | 87
Saturnian moon Mimas: Crunchy on the outside, sub-surface ocean on the inside
Data from Cassini suggests hidden depths beneath crater-ridden body
Science08 Feb 2024 | 8
CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider
Vid CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org's existing inspector bots
Science08 Feb 2024 | 28
Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole
Launch windows do not respect political squabbling
Science07 Feb 2024 | 26
How Neuraspace aims to clean up orbital clutter with AI
Interview Can tech and regulations beat the great satellite landgrab?
AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 8
India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability
Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025
Science07 Feb 2024 | 6
SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal
Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off
Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 89
CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator
The Future Circular Collider, if built, will be three times the size of the LHC
Science06 Feb 2024 | 102
Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters
Letter: Budget cuts will 'essentially cancel' daring multi vehicle project unless reversed
Science02 Feb 2024 | 19
Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough
Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid
Science01 Feb 2024 | 14
DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy
Updated Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us
Science31 Jan 2024 | 8
Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk
Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve?
Science31 Jan 2024 | 33
ESA salutes Galileo satellite system meeting aviation standards
It's all in the software
Science30 Jan 2024 | 12
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human
Controling prostheses? Mr X imagines an app for that
Science30 Jan 2024 | 69
ESA gives gravitational wave space probe LISA the nod for a 2035 launch
Trio of spacecraft to capture ripples in spacetime
Science29 Jan 2024 | 12
The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin
Brain research could help find the right mix between handwriting and new technologies, researchers claim
Science28 Jan 2024 | 31
Hubble telescope spots tiniest water-rich world in orbit
Don't pack your swimming costumes as it could be more of a sauna planet
Science27 Jan 2024 | 12
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more, but is still standing upright
In Memoriam for plucky robot that brushed off dead sensors and dust like they were nothing
Science26 Jan 2024 | 36
JAXA releases photo of SLIM lander in lunar faceplant
Mission a 'minimum' success because rovers deployed successfully
Science26 Jan 2024 | 42
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