Thursday, November 06, 2025 11:56 PM ET
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UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn -- Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services -- Science18 hours ago
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS -- Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship -- Science21 hours ago
Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA -- Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections -- Public Sector22 hours ago
Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters -- Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit -- Off-Prem -- 04 Nov 20252 days ago
ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews -- Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch -- Science -- 03 Nov 20252 days ago
SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship -- NASA is short of options when it comes to alternatives -- Science -- 31 Oct 20252 days ago
Japan's new space truck is also a temporary space lab, just worked first time -- HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS -- Science -- 31 Oct 20252 days ago
Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation -- More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery -- Science9 days ago
Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm -- How many 1080p screens can you fit on a pinhead? These German physicists reckon about one -- Science10 days ago
How do you solve a problem like Discovery? -- Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US? -- Offbeat13 days ago
Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars -- Airbus, Leonardo and Thales seek to 'strengthen Europe's strategic autonomy in space' -- Science13 days ago
Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles -- Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public14 days ago
SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition -- Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers15 days ago
Brit boffins teach fusion plasma some manners with 3D magnetic field -- MAST Upgrade team claims first suppression of pesky edge instabilities in a spherical tokamak14 days ago
Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters -- Now try a jet engine in a bedstead before strapping into a Starship14 days ago
Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit -- NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype -- PaaS + IaaS20 days ago
MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise -- 'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise -- Science20 days ago
Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity -- Energy secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters -- On-Prem20 days ago
Axiom Space ejects CEO after six months, installs NASA veteran as replacement - Updated - Jonathan Cirtain at the helm as revolving door swings for private corp - Science - 16 Oct 2025 - | 819 days ago
SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb -- Comment -- Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing21 days ago
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building -- US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science23 days ago
SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement -- Updated -- Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await23 days ago
Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual -- Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteries26 days ago
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity -- Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos27 days ago
Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian' Exclusive - Houston, we have a custody battle - Science - 09 Oct 2025 - | 11514 days ago
Mars' powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions -- Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA's veteran orbiters29 days ago
Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle -- Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off – allegedly29 days ago
How chatbots are coaching vulnerable users into crisis - Feature - From homework helper to psychological hazard in 300 hours of sycophantic validation - AI + ML - 08 Oct 2025 - | 2128 days ago
Trio who made foundational quantum computing discovery bag Nobel physics prize -- Studies at UC Berkeley in the 1980s paved the way for quantum computing and cryptography30 days ago
Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth's atmosphere -- Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell1 month ago
Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told -- Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking1 month ago
Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath -- Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress1 month ago
Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks -- IAC 2025 -- Stray signals are a no-no when you're trying to tune into the stars -- On-Prem1 month ago
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13 -- Once more with feeling...1 month ago
Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap -- Geek's Guide -- Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel -- Geek's Guide1 month ago
Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron -- UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication1 month ago
Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes -- Company faces a setback on the test stand1 month ago
NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat -- DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark1 month ago
Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort -- If at first you don't succeed, you might be SpaceX1 month ago
NASA administrator says US should have 'village' on Moon in a decade - IAC 2025 - The Register is at the world's biggest space gabfest and just heard the world's top 6 space agency leaders speak - Science - 29 Sep 2025 - | 351 month ago
NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings -- Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all -- Science1 month ago
SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost -- Meanwhile, Katalyst wins $30M contract to stop Swift telescope falling out of the sky -- Science1 month ago
Tree-hugging hippie datacenter runs entirely on green hydrogen and wastes zero water -- Lambda's latest innovation with bit barn builder ECL only supports a handful of Nvidia racks, but it's a start -- Systems1 month ago
Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones -- 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff -- AI + ML1 month ago
NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan -- Safety watchdog doubts SpaceX can ready HLS in time for 2027 Artemis mission -- Science1 month ago
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil -- It's one small sip for man... -- Science1 month ago
Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself -- It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier -- Science1 month ago
Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants -- Judge rules there's no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out1 month ago
Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year 'Dawn' mission -- Thanks for the memories, Akatsuki1 month ago
AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either -- Inject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing14 days ago
Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy -- Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'1 month ago
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say -- Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing – a bit like people, really -- Science1 month ago
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists -- That's optimistic based on progress so far -- Science1 month ago
Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA -- We remind the world yet again that science fiction is usually a warning, not an aspiration -- Science1 month ago
Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide -- Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back -- Networks1 month ago
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Opinion - There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors - Science - 15 Sep 2025 - | 531 month ago
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart -- But it reads at about the speed of punch cards -- Storage1 month ago
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again - Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems - Science - 12 Sep 2025 - |1 month ago
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen -- Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop -- Science1 month ago
US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream -- That won't even warm the plasma -- Science1 month ago
NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks, even Zoom calls -- You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons why -- Security1 month ago
NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far -- The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped -- Science1 month ago
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus -- Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness -- Science1 month ago
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype -- Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI -- Personal Tech2 months ago
SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit -- But what goes up will also have to come down -- Science2 months ago
Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again -- Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blame -- Science2 months ago
UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government -- ARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back -- Science2 months ago
Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited -- New Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator2 months ago
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty -- Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff2 months ago
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University -- Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases2 months ago
ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections -- Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun2 months ago
AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help -- "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"2 months ago
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build -- 700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles2 months ago
Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart -- Company cleared to launch again after April failure2 months ago
Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10 -- Explosions all expected and on schedule this time2 months ago
Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban - World War Fee - 'They have to give us magnets' Science - 26 Aug 2025 - | 1312 months ago
ESA engineers trace anomaly in silent Juice spacecraft to a bug in the code -- Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus looms2 months ago
Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX? -- We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!2 months ago
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative -- Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative2 months ago
Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet -- Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings -- Science2 months ago
IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums -- Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids -- AI + ML2 months ago
Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back -- Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean -- Science2 months ago
Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry -- Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined -- Science2 months ago
NASA starts bolting together Artemis III rocket for 2027 Moon shot -- Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth2 months ago
China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk -- Single spacesuit now worn 20 times2 months ago
Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030 -- More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge2 months ago
Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel -- Got a particle accelerator? Here's your tritium startup idea2 months ago
Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy -- P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds2 months ago
SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test -- If at first you succeed, keep trying until you don't2 months ago
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? -- You have until Thursday August 21 to respond if you do2 months ago
Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme? -- US DoE names firms for Pilot Program to show how it could be done2 months ago
Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins -- Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts -- Offbeat2 months ago
NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit -- Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays -- Science2 months ago
Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room -- First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor -- Science2 months ago
UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' -- Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation -- Science2 months ago
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit - Obit - Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 - Science - 11 Aug 2025 - | 182 months ago
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study -- Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins2 months ago
China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests -- Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 20302 months ago
NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas -- Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one2 months ago