Monday, December 08, 2025 1:07 AM ET
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We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares -- Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again'3 days ago
China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing -- An 'anomaly' meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage4 days ago
Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse -- LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits4 days ago
ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado -- Updated -- Russian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals -- Science3 days ago
UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain -- Brit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memory -- 02 Dec 20255 days ago
Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs -- Asia in Brief -- PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more! -- Public Sector7 days ago
Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight -- Roscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027 -- 28 Nov 20255 days ago
Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment -- ExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day10 days ago
NASA pares back Boeing's Starliner deal after 2024 calamity -- Capsule might only manage three crewed missions to the ISS12 days ago
Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous -- Uncrewed Shenzhou also delivered supplies and window fixing kit12 days ago
Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream -- Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK13 days ago
Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum -- Japanese team finds 80% of the tiny plant cells remained viable after 283 days in orbit13 days ago
SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap -- Redesigned booster ruptures during early checks, delaying latest Starship iteration16 days ago
Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA's Swift observatory from fiery demise -- Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job18 days ago
DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move -- Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit18 days ago
Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M -- Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn't betting everything on NASA -- Science13 days ago
China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew -- Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company -- Science19 days ago
Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually -- Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist -- Science19 days ago
Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel -- €544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower -- Supercomputing Month17 days ago
Starlink's method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer -- Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime -- Networks19 days ago
Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike -- Original spacecraft deemed unsafe after cracks spotted in window -- Science23 days ago
Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout - Opinion - Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares - Personal Tech - 14 Nov 2025 - | 10718 days ago
Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches -- Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions -- Science24 days ago
Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales -- Government picks Wylfa on Anglesey for initial trio of units, but power unlikely before mid-2030s -- On-Prem24 days ago
First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun -- Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets -- Science24 days ago
Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme -- Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy -- Science24 days ago
Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try' -- Hungry Hippo won't move to the launchpad until next year -- Science24 days ago
UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing -- Years of development still needed but AI, 3D printing, and other alternative options on the horizon -- Science26 days ago
SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew -- Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft -- Science27 days ago
25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS -- All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30 -- Science1 month ago
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us -- Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers -- PaaS + IaaS1 month ago
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn -- Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services -- Science1 month ago
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS -- Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship -- Science1 month 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 Sector1 month 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-Prem1 month ago
ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews -- Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch -- 03 Nov 20251 month ago
SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship -- NASA is short of options when it comes to alternatives -- 31 Oct 20251 month 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 -- 31 Oct 20251 month ago
Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation -- More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery -- 28 Oct 20251 month 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 -- Science1 month ago
How do you solve a problem like Discovery? -- Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US? -- Offbeat1 month 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' -- Science1 month ago
Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles -- Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public -- Science1 month ago
SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition -- Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers -- Science1 month 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 tokamak -- Science1 month 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 Starship -- Science1 month 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 + IaaS1 month ago
MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise -- 'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise -- Science1 month 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-Prem1 month 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 corp1 month ago
SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb -- Comment -- Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing1 month 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 science1 month ago
SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement - Updated - Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await - Science - 13 Oct 2025 - | 291 month 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 batteries1 month ago
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity -- Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos6 days ago
Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian' -- Exclusive -- Houston, we have a custody battle -- Science1 month ago
Mars' powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions -- Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA's veteran orbiters1 month 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 – allegedly1 month ago
How chatbots are coaching vulnerable users into crisis -- Feature -- From homework helper to psychological hazard in 300 hours of sycophantic validation -- AI + ML1 month 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 cryptography2 months 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 McDowell2 months 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 wrecking2 months ago
Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath -- Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress2 months 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-Prem2 months ago
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13 -- Once more with feeling... -- 01 Oct 20252 months 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 Guide2 months ago
Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron -- UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication -- 30 Sep 20252 months ago
Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes -- Company faces a setback on the test stand2 months ago
NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat -- DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark2 months ago
Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort -- If at first you don't succeed, you might be SpaceX2 months 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 - | 352 months ago
NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings -- Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all -- Science2 months 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 -- Science2 months 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 -- Systems2 months ago
Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones -- 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff -- AI + ML2 months 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 mission2 months ago
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil -- It's one small sip for man...2 months 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 trickier2 months 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 out2 months ago
Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year 'Dawn' mission -- Thanks for the memories, Akatsuki2 months 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 thing1 month 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'2 months 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, really2 months ago
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists -- That's optimistic based on progress so far -- Science2 months 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 -- Science2 months ago
Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide -- Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back -- Networks2 months ago
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Opinion - There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors - Science - 15 Sep 2025 - | 532 months ago
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart -- But it reads at about the speed of punch cards -- Storage2 months ago
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again - Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems - Science - 12 Sep 2025 - |2 months ago
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen -- Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop -- Science2 months ago
US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream -- That won't even warm the plasma -- Science2 months 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 -- Security2 months ago
NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far -- The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped -- Science2 months ago
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus -- Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness -- Science3 months ago
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype -- Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI -- Personal Tech3 months ago
SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit -- But what goes up will also have to come down3 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 blame3 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 back3 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 Senator3 months ago