Monday, May 18, 2026 6:48 PM ET
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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 permitting4 days 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 paces5 days ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu6 days ago
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch -- Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May6 days ago
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration7 days ago
Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler12 days 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 time12 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely12 days 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 dev12 days ago
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest12 days ago
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects12 days 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 slashed12 days 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 team12 days ago
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate12 days ago
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences12 days 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 decision12 days 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 resume12 days 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 mess12 days 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'12 days 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 place12 days 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 shutdown12 days ago
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms12 days 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 advise12 days 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?12 days 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 decade12 days ago
Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math -- Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting12 days ago
NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats -- Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage12 days ago
Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure -- Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered12 days 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!12 days ago
DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months -- Drawback: it's radioactive12 days ago
Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication protocol -- MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discovery12 days ago
Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo -- Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helping12 days ago
White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record -- 'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration'12 days ago
Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo -- And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned12 days ago
Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year -- Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math12 days ago
Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales with out-of-this-world price hikes -- Flights to resume in 2026 before space tourism biz runs out of cash12 days ago
Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly' -- No risk to ISS or Artemis, but not ideal for operator peace of mind12 days ago
Mars coughs up another maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds -- Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology12 days ago
Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby -- Orion's four astronauts edge toward liftoff for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than 50 years12 days ago
Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze -- Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunk12 days ago
Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit -- Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence12 days ago
Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist12 days ago
NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers -- Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?12 days ago
Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens -- They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus12 days ago
Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base -- NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently12 days ago
NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle' -- Draft Request for Proposals says you can move shuttle orbiter but you cannot break it12 days ago
When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella -- National Audit Office warns government has little idea of how to respond in the event of a major solar storm12 days ago
CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge -- The operating system of the universe isn't going to debug itself12 days ago
Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor -- Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matter12 days ago
Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V -- SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone?12 days ago
Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes -- Better than seismometers?12 days ago
Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire -- Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball12 days ago
In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies -- A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day12 days ago
Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample -- Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life12 days ago
Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers -- Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about12 days ago
Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid -- Biological computing is messy and gassy – It's now cloudy, too12 days ago
NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 -- 'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch'12 days ago
NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag -- Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury12 days ago
Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles -- DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials12 days ago
Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns -- This is not satire, but we wish it was12 days ago
Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place -- Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III near12 days ago
SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed -- Solar winds near aliens' homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals12 days ago
Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream -- Calls Musk's orbital plans "speculative" despite Bezos touting orbiting compute12 days ago
China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon -- Not a US flag in sight12 days ago
NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead -- Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander12 days ago
Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is -- Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late12 days ago
NASA's asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour -- You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers12 days ago
Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom -- What hath science wrought?12 days ago
60 YEARS SINCE HUMANITY TOUCHED THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER PLANET -- Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus12 days ago