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AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help -- "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

17 hours 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 particles

2 days ago

Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart -- Company cleared to launch again after April failure

3 days ago

Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10 -- Explosions all expected and on schedule this time

4 days 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 - | 131

2 days ago

ESA engineers trace anomaly in silent Juice spacecraft to a bug in the code -- Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus looms

5 days ago

Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX? -- We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!

5 days 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 alternative

6 days 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 -- Science

9 days 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 + ML

9 days ago

Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back -- Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean -- Science

9 days 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 -- Science

9 days ago

NASA starts bolting together Artemis III rocket for 2027 Moon shot -- Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth

12 days ago

China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk -- Single spacesuit now worn 20 times

13 days 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 Ridge

13 days ago

Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel -- Got a particle accelerator? Here's your tritium startup idea

13 days ago

Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy -- P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds

13 days ago

SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test -- If at first you succeed, keep trying until you don't

13 days ago

Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? -- You have until Thursday August 21 to respond if you do

13 days 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 done

13 days ago

Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins -- Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts -- Offbeat

17 days ago

NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit -- Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays -- Science

17 days 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 -- Science

17 days ago

UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' -- Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation -- Science

17 days ago

Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit - Obit - Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 - Science - 11 Aug 2025 - | 18

19 days ago

Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study -- Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins

20 days ago

China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests -- Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030

20 days ago

NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas -- Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one

21 days ago

NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon -- Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia

23 days ago

North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme -- Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby

23 days ago

NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations -- Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts?

23 days ago

More NASA spacecraft give controllers the silent treatment -- Communication problems for recently launched small satellites

23 days ago

Mistakenly sold NASA command trailer could be yours – for $199K -- Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up -- Offbeat

25 days ago

Lunar Trailblazer trails off as NASA loses probe to the void -- Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment -- Science

25 days ago

How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier -- You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000 -- Science

26 days ago

Skyrora wins green light to lob rockets from Scotland -- Launch license issued for suborbital Skylark L -- Science

26 days ago

Germany and Japan teamed their ISS robots for seek-and-photograph mission -- Bot built by Airbus and IBM recognized astronaut's voice and issued instructions to camera drone

26 days ago

Amazon's Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services in mid-2026, at least in Australia - Updated - Maybe sooner in other places - Networks - 05 Aug 2025 - | 6

25 days ago

Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar -- Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors

27 days ago

Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust? -- Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart

27 days ago

ISS is still leaking air after latest repair efforts fail -- Russian boffins searching for root cause in their segment of the outpost, former cosmonaut says -- 01 Aug 2025

30 days ago

Wasp nest at US nuclear site tests ten times over safe radiation limit -- Everything's fine, says Department of Energy report -- 01 Aug 2025

30 days ago

SpaceX Crew Dragon lofting next batch of 'nauts to ISS today -- Crew-11 prepares for liftoff on Musk rocket while Boeing's Calamity Capsule remains grounded -- 31 Jul 2025

30 days ago

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved - Deep dive - Ground control to Majorana - Science - 31 Jul 2025 - | 30

23 days ago

US Navy won't torpedo hurricane forecast satellite feed after all -- Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround

1 month ago

NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $177M to drop more bots on the Moon -- If at first you succeed, have some more money

1 month ago

Clouds and submarine cables report no impact from sixth-largest earthquake in recorded history, subsequent tsunami -- Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems

1 month ago

Australia's attempt to join the space race lasts just 14 seconds -- 'I would have liked more flight time but happy with this' says CEO of private rocket outfit

1 month ago

US science left out in the cold amid plans to retire Antarctic icebreaker -- Another week, another protest over budget proposals

1 month ago

Cape Canaveral marks 75 years since its first rocket launch -- Bumper's 1950 liftoff paved way for thousands of missions from iconic spaceport

1 month ago

NASA faces brain drain as thousands exit under voluntary resignation scheme -- Some heading into retirement, others to private sector

1 month ago

Meta eggheads demo Bluetooth wristband that decodes muscle twitches for UI control -- Unlike traditional input, no cameras or surgery needed, they claim

1 month ago

Musk is messing with the Cosmic Dawn. Will alien hunters save the day for all mankind? -- Opinion -- Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy -- Networks

1 month ago

COVID-19 pandemic accelerated brain aging – even if you didn't catch the virus - Boffins think worry and stress during the plague years changed our wetware, and that the damage can be reversed - Science - 23 Jul 2025 - | 27

1 month ago

Biggest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3M at auction, cheaper than NASA's sample return mission -- Videos -- Sotheby's also flogs off dinosaur skeleton for $26M -- Science

1 month ago

The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i -- Column -- The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions -- Science

1 month ago

NASA Goddard Center Director quits as agency staffers issue dissent letter -- Updated -- Voyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research

1 month ago

NASA hacked hardware of camera orbiting Jupiter – and fixed it - Deliberate overheating brought relief to Juno probe's camera, twice - Science - 22 Jul 2025 - | 28

1 month ago

Humongous parachute for European Mars landing mission tested successfully -- video -- As US lawmakers wrangle over NASA's stake in ExoMars, at least the chutes work

1 month ago

NASA veteran warns Hubble faces death by a hundred cuts -- Interview -- Former astronaut laments software shutdowns, staff reductions amid ongoing budget squeeze

1 month ago

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off -- Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff -- Networks

1 month ago

Japan discovers object out beyond Pluto that rewrites the Planet 9 theory -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire's political party suffers data breach, won't contact victims; and more

1 month ago

The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- Interview -- We spoke to the smoot's namesake

1 month ago

Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog -- Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' -- Research

1 month ago

Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists -- The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity

1 month ago

JWST peers through dusty curtain to catch young star making baby planets -- Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape

1 month ago

Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories -- Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars

1 month ago

Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror -- First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home

1 month ago

Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe - Asia In Brief - PLUS: China's massive lithium find; Cisco's new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more - Public Sector - 14 Jul 2025 - | 8

1 month ago

Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator -- Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?

1 month ago

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds -- New Zealand's Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey

1 month ago

Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts -- 'The Things We'll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing

1 month ago

ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded - Comment - Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff - Science - 09 Jul 2025 - | 13

1 month ago

One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts -- 'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed'

1 month ago

Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho -- Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness

1 month ago

Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles -- Lucy in the sky with calcium

1 month ago

'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data -- Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings -- Networks

1 month ago

UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites - Updated - Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits? Science - 06 Jul 2025 - | 52

1 month ago

Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests -- New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared -- Science

1 month ago

Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box -- A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool -- Science

1 month ago

MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth -- Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise -- Science

1 month ago

23andMe's new owner says your DNA is safe this time -- Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter -- Cyber-crime

1 month ago

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle -- NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum -- Science

1 month ago

NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets -- Mysterious 'Alloy 30' gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes -- Science

1 month ago

NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone -- Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment -- 01 Jul 2025

1 month ago

China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12 -- America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing -- 01 Jul 2025

1 month ago

Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work -- Someday, my prince will come -- 30 Jun 2025

1 month ago

Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions - video - NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test - Science - 30 Jun 2025 - | 11

1 month ago

China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers -- Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021's Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems -- Systems

2 months ago

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: 'very large rolls' -- Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way -- Science

2 months ago

US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data - updated - No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Science - 27 Jun 2025 - | 78

1 month ago

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth -- Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK -- Science

2 months ago

NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations -- Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor -- Science

2 months ago

Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan -- Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks -- Science

2 months ago

Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25 -- Fifth and final Crew Dragon ready for first flight to the ISS tomorrow -- Science

2 months ago

Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink -- ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites -- Networks

2 months ago

World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online -- 20TB of galactic shots a day, backed by Microsofties

2 months ago

Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink -- French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti

2 months ago

ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter -- Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works

2 months ago

SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground -- Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero

2 months ago