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UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers -- Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US

17 hours ago

Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule -- Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired

3 days ago

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security -- DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research

3 days ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans -- Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready

10 days ago

Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry -- Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted

12 days ago

NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon -- Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base

13 days ago

Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust -- Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit

13 days ago

Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks -- What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?

13 days ago

Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission -- Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!

14 days ago

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation -- Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech

17 days ago

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go -- Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars

17 days ago

ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings -- Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks

19 days ago

Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing -- Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul

19 days ago

NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars -- There sure are some clever people on Earth

24 days ago

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 permitting

25 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 paces

26 days ago

US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu

27 days ago

SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch -- Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May

27 days ago

NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration

28 days ago

Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler

1 month 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 time

1 month ago

Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

1 month 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 dev

1 month ago

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest

1 month ago

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

1 month 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 slashed

1 month 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 team

1 month ago

Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate

1 month ago

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences

1 month 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 decision

1 month 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 resume

1 month 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 mess

1 month 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'

1 month 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 place

1 month 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 shutdown

1 month ago

NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms

1 month 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 advise

1 month 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?

1 month 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 decade

1 month ago

Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math -- Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting

1 month ago

NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats -- Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage

1 month ago

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure -- Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered

1 month 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!

1 month ago

DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months -- Drawback: it's radioactive

1 month 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 discovery

1 month ago

Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo -- Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helping

1 month 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'

1 month ago

Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo -- And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned

1 month 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 math

1 month 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 cash

1 month ago

Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly' -- No risk to ISS or Artemis, but not ideal for operator peace of mind

1 month 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 biology

1 month 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 years

1 month 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 drunk

1 month ago

Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit -- Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence

1 month ago

Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist

1 month ago

NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers -- Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?

1 month 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 stylus

1 month 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, apparently

1 month 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 it

1 month 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 storm

1 month ago

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge -- The operating system of the universe isn't going to debug itself

1 month 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 matter

1 month 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?

1 month ago

Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes -- Better than seismometers?

1 month 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 ball

1 month 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 day

1 month 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 life

1 month ago

Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers -- Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about

1 month ago

Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid -- Biological computing is messy and gassy – It's now cloudy, too

1 month ago