SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages Science23 Apr 2024 | 21
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 | 25
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
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs 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 Outsourcers outsourced work for the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max to the hermit kingdom
Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7 City council says it lost control after shutting down systems
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 Putin's pals use 'GooseEgg' malware to launch attacks you can defeat with patches or deletion
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all
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
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America' That said, good ol' American healthcare system so elaborately costly, some are forced to avoid altogether
FBI and friends get two more years of warrantless FISA Section 702 snooping Senate kills reform amendments, Biden swiftly signs bill into law
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
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