Tuesday, September 16, 2025 8:25 AM ET
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Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide -- Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back -- Networks1 day ago
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Opinion - There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors - Science - 15 Sep 2025 - | 481 hour ago
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart -- But it reads at about the speed of punch cards -- Storage3 days ago
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again - Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems - Science - 12 Sep 2025 - |3 days ago
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen -- Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop -- Science3 days ago
US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream -- That won't even warm the plasma -- Science4 days 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 -- Security5 days ago
NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far -- The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped -- Science5 days ago
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus -- Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness -- Science9 days ago
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype -- Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI -- Personal Tech10 days ago
SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit -- But what goes up will also have to come down -- Science10 days ago
Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again -- Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blame11 days 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 back12 days 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 Senator12 days ago
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty -- Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff12 days 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 diseases -- 01 Sep 202514 days ago
ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections -- Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun -- 01 Sep 202514 days ago
AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help -- "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" -- 31 Aug 202514 days 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 -- 29 Aug 202514 days ago
Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart -- Company cleared to launch again after April failure18 days ago
Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10 -- Explosions all expected and on schedule this time20 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 - | 13117 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 looms20 days ago
Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX? -- We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds! -- Science20 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 -- Science22 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 -- Science24 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 + ML25 days ago
Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back -- Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean25 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 sidelined26 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 Earth27 days ago
China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk -- Single spacesuit now worn 20 times28 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 Ridge28 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 idea28 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 finds28 days ago
SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test -- If at first you succeed, keep trying until you don't28 days ago
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? -- You have until Thursday August 21 to respond if you do -- Science1 month 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 -- Science1 month ago
Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins -- Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts -- Offbeat1 month ago
NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit -- Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays -- Science1 month 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 floor1 month ago
UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' -- Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation1 month ago
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit - Obit - Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 - Science - 11 Aug 2025 - | 181 month ago
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study -- Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins1 month ago
China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests -- Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 20301 month ago
NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas -- Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one1 month ago
NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon -- Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia1 month ago
North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme -- Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby1 month 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? -- Science1 month ago
More NASA spacecraft give controllers the silent treatment -- Communication problems for recently launched small satellites -- Science1 month ago
Mistakenly sold NASA command trailer could be yours – for $199K -- Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up -- Offbeat1 month ago
Lunar Trailblazer trails off as NASA loses probe to the void -- Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment -- Science1 month ago
How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier -- You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,0001 month ago
Skyrora wins green light to lob rockets from Scotland -- Launch license issued for suborbital Skylark L1 month 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 drone1 month 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 - | 61 month ago
Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar -- Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors1 month 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 apart1 month 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 says1 month ago
Wasp nest at US nuclear site tests ten times over safe radiation limit -- Everything's fine, says Department of Energy report1 month 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 grounded1 month ago
Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved - Deep dive - Ground control to Majorana - Science - 31 Jul 2025 - | 301 month ago
US Navy won't torpedo hurricane forecast satellite feed after all -- Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround1 month ago
NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $177M to drop more bots on the Moon -- If at first you succeed, have some more money1 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 problems1 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 outfit1 month ago
US science left out in the cold amid plans to retire Antarctic icebreaker -- Another week, another protest over budget proposals1 month ago
Cape Canaveral marks 75 years since its first rocket launch -- Bumper's 1950 liftoff paved way for thousands of missions from iconic spaceport1 month ago
NASA faces brain drain as thousands exit under voluntary resignation scheme -- Some heading into retirement, others to private sector1 month ago
Meta eggheads demo Bluetooth wristband that decodes muscle twitches for UI control -- Unlike traditional input, no cameras or surgery needed, they claim1 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 - 23 Jul 2025 - | 381 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 reversed1 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 $26M1 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 emissions1 month ago
NASA Goddard Center Director quits as agency staffers issue dissent letter -- Updated -- Voyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research1 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 - | 281 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 work1 month ago
NASA veteran warns Hubble faces death by a hundred cuts -- Interview -- Former astronaut laments software shutdowns, staff reductions amid ongoing budget squeeze1 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 - 21 Jul 2025 - | 621 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 more1 month ago
The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement - Interview - We spoke to the smoot's namesake - Science - 18 Jul 2025 - | 681 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' -- Research1 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 -- Science1 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 -- Science1 month ago
Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories -- Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars2 months 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 home2 months 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 - | 82 months ago
Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator -- Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?2 months 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 prey2 months ago
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts -- 'The Things We'll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing2 months 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 - | 132 months 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'2 months ago
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho -- Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness -- Science2 months ago
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles -- Lucy in the sky with calcium -- Science2 months 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 -- Networks2 months 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 - | 522 months 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 -- Science2 months ago
Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box -- A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool -- Science2 months ago
MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth -- Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise -- Science2 months 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-crime2 months ago