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Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches -- Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions -- Science

12 hours 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-Prem

14 hours 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 -- Science

14 hours 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 -- Science

14 hours 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

2 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

2 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

3 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

5 days 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 + IaaS

7 days ago

UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn -- Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services -- Science

7 days ago

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS -- Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship -- Science

7 days 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 Sector

7 days 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-Prem -- 04 Nov 2025

9 days ago

ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews -- Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch -- Science -- 03 Nov 2025

9 days ago

SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship -- NASA is short of options when it comes to alternatives -- Science -- 31 Oct 2025

9 days 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 -- Science -- 31 Oct 2025

9 days ago

Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation -- More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery -- Science

16 days 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 -- Science

17 days ago

How do you solve a problem like Discovery? -- Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US? -- Offbeat

20 days 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' -- Science

20 days ago

Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan -- 'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO

1 day ago

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI -- Updated -- Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar

1 hour ago

Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch -- End of support? Not quite

18 hours ago

Russia's first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut -- Go home, comrade clanker, you look drunk – and worryingly angry

9 hours ago

MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows -- Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code

14 hours ago

OpenAI's viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft -- Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues

11 hours ago

China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer -- A new theory from the agency that brought us 'America hacked itself to blame Beijing'

11 hours ago

Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads -- Systems Approach -- Networks have changed profoundly, except for the parts that haven't

1 hour ago

Tablet market stalls because there's not much new worth buying -- Pre-tariff purchasing panic also helped to end 18-month growth run

14 hours ago

VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware

11 hours ago

Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles -- Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public

21 days ago

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition -- Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers

22 days 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

21 days 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

21 days 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 + IaaS

27 days ago

MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise -- 'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise -- Science

27 days 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-Prem

27 days 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 corp - Science - 16 Oct 2025 - | 8

26 days ago

SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb -- Comment -- Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing

28 days 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 science

30 days ago

SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement -- Updated -- Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await

30 days 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 batteries

1 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 chaos

1 month ago

Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian' Exclusive - Houston, we have a custody battle - Science - 09 Oct 2025 - | 115

21 days ago

Mars' powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions -- Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA's veteran orbiters

1 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 – allegedly

1 month ago

How chatbots are coaching vulnerable users into crisis - Feature - From homework helper to psychological hazard in 300 hours of sycophantic validation - AI + ML - 08 Oct 2025 - | 21

1 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 cryptography

1 month 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 McDowell

1 month 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 wrecking

1 month ago

Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath -- Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress

1 month 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-Prem

1 month ago

SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13 -- Once more with feeling...

1 month 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 Guide

1 month ago

Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron -- UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication

1 month ago

Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes -- Company faces a setback on the test stand

1 month ago

NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat -- DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark

1 month ago

Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort -- If at first you don't succeed, you might be SpaceX

1 month 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 - | 35

1 month ago

NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings -- Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all -- Science

1 month 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 -- Science

1 month 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 -- Systems

1 month ago

Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones -- 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff -- AI + ML

1 month 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 mission -- Science

1 month ago

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil -- It's one small sip for man... -- Science

1 month 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 trickier -- Science

1 month 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 out

1 month ago

Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year 'Dawn' mission -- Thanks for the memories, Akatsuki

1 month 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 thing

21 days 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'

1 month 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, really -- Science

1 month ago

Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists -- That's optimistic based on progress so far -- Science

1 month 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 -- Science

1 month ago

Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide -- Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back -- Networks

1 month ago

Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Opinion - There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors - Science - 15 Sep 2025 - | 53

1 month ago

Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart -- But it reads at about the speed of punch cards -- Storage

2 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 -- Science

2 months ago

US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream -- That won't even warm the plasma -- Science

2 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 -- Security

2 months ago

NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far -- The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped -- Science

2 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 -- Science

2 months ago

Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype -- Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI -- Personal Tech

2 months ago

SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit -- But what goes up will also have to come down -- Science

2 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 blame -- Science

2 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 back -- Science

2 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 Senator

2 months ago

White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty -- Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff

2 months 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

2 months ago

ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections -- Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun

2 months ago

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

2 months 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 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months 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 months 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

2 months ago

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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months ago

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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months ago

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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months 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

2 months ago