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Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space -- There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos

3 days ago

New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation -- Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch

3 days ago

Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander -- Jim Bridenstine says Artemis 'extraordinarily complicated' compared to the days of Apollo and the Saturn V

4 days ago

NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons -- Advanced Space's privately owned probe will keep flying, but the agency's role is over

5 days ago

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma -- Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium

5 days ago

Japan's asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock -- Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission - and sent back a pic, too

5 days ago

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year -- There might also be a downside

8 days ago

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time -- SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world

10 days ago

Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead

12 days ago

Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor -- The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists

12 days ago

Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light -- Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?

14 days ago

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands -- Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal

15 days ago

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI

15 days ago

Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars -- Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home

16 days ago

Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another -- The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone

17 days ago

Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon -- Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind

20 days ago

2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud -- You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute

23 days ago

Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' -- The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention

23 days ago

NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit -- Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground

24 days ago

Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave -- Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast

24 days ago

AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job -- The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is

25 days ago

NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment -- Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve

26 days ago

NASA management wants a word and won't say why -- A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew

27 days ago

Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks

1 month ago

NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal -- Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered

1 month ago

MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer -- Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?

1 month ago

UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers -- Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US

1 month ago

Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule -- Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired

1 month ago

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security -- DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research

1 month ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans -- Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready

1 month ago

Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry -- Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted

1 month ago

NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon -- Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base

1 month ago

Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust -- Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit

1 month ago

Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks -- What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?

1 month ago

Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission -- Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!

1 month ago

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation -- Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech

1 month ago

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go -- Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars

1 month ago

ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings -- Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks

1 month ago

Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing -- Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul

1 month ago

NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars -- There sure are some clever people on Earth

1 month ago

NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon -- SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting

1 month ago

SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade? -- May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces

1 month ago

US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu

1 month ago

SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch -- Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May

2 months ago

NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration

2 months ago

Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler

2 months ago

More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook -- Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time

2 months ago

Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

2 months ago

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev

2 months ago

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest

2 months ago

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

2 months ago

Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' -- That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed

2 months ago

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months -- Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team

2 months ago

Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate

2 months ago

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences

2 months ago

NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision

2 months ago

FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume

2 months ago

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess

2 months ago

You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'

2 months ago

Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place

2 months ago

NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown

2 months ago

NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms

2 months ago

Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time -- 'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise

2 months ago

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 -- Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?

2 months ago

Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges -- Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade

2 months ago

Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math -- Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting

2 months ago

NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats -- Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage

2 months ago

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure -- Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered

2 months ago

Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown -- Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they're coming back!

2 months ago

DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months -- Drawback: it's radioactive

2 months ago