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Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue -- Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues -- On-Prem

6 hours ago

NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense -- Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics -- Science

6 hours ago

Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic - Updated - Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills - Science - 27 Mar 2024 - | 7

5 hours ago

Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear -- 100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth -- Science

6 hours ago

Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets -- This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators

5 days ago

World's first Neuralink patient enjoying online chess, long Civ 6 sessions -- While excited by the implant, Noland Arbaugh says it's not perfect and there's still work to be done

6 days ago

DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with drafting lunar train blueprints -- Um. Let's successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite?

7 days ago

Euclid space telescope needs de-icing -- Warm water and a scraper not an option when you're 1.5 million kilometers from home

7 days ago

European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale -- Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space

8 days ago

Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off -- Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date

8 days ago

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage -- Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source

13 days ago

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship -- Booster hit the water hard and monster rocket lost during re-entry, but otherwise a success!

13 days ago

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble -- Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers

13 days ago

Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions - Video - KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad - Science - 13 Mar 2024 - | 17

12 days ago

NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble -- But Artemis is still OK, so that's alright then

15 days ago

Stratolaunch's air-launched test vehicle hits supersonic speed -- TA-1 test ticks off all the primary objectives, but hypersonic flight will have to wait

16 days ago

UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers -- Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk?

16 days ago

An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer - Interview - Chatting to Anmol Taploo about the race to develop tech for satellites - Science - 09 Mar 2024 - | 58

10 days ago

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth -- 'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive

19 days ago

Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too -- With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense

20 days ago

Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries -- Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027

20 days ago

Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open -- Time flies for The Flies

21 days ago

Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help -- Roscosmos has had a few problems landing on the lunar surface recently

21 days ago

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon -- To detect seismic waves, silly

21 days ago

NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies -- Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August

22 days ago

Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected -- Less abundant molecular oxygen narrow chances of life being found on Jupiter's icy moon

22 days ago

NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas -- OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs?

22 days ago

NASA's Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board -- The tech just isn't ready and clunky collab with ESA isn't helping, auditor finds

23 days ago

The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out -- 'Farewell' snap revealed by Intuitive Machines amid hope solar-powered craft may one day spring to life again -- 02 Mar 2024

26 days ago

Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air -- Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up -- 29 Feb 2024

26 days ago

New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners -- Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution -- 28 Feb 2024

26 days ago

Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side -- Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander -- 27 Feb 2024

26 days ago

FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again -- You've heard of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. How about an energetic engine failure?

1 month ago

ESA's ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted -- Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent

1 month ago

Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap -- How's that for resilient?

1 month ago

72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics -- Perseverance images show violent end to Ingenuity's final flight

1 month ago

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell -- Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now

1 month ago

Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science -- Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry

1 month ago

NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too -- No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday

1 month ago

Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told -- Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident

1 month ago

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing - Updated - It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part - Science - 22 Feb 2024 - | 8

1 month ago

Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed -- Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency

1 month ago

Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage -- Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering

1 month ago

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground -- Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency

1 month ago

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable -- Opinion -- Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around?

1 month ago

Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G -- Updated -- One giant leap for astronaut medicine

1 month ago

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped -- 121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once

1 month ago

NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space -- Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times

1 month ago

Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket -- Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes

1 month ago

WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age -- The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover

1 month ago

NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission? -- Ready for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court

1 month ago

Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason -- The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group has just given 29 space rocks names

1 month ago

Japan's space program seeks reboot with Wednesday launch -- Second test flight for failed H3 booster after a run of bad luck

1 month ago

50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth -- Around The World in 84 days

1 month ago

Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high -- Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035

1 month ago

NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite -- 'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter

1 month ago

Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery -- 2 MWh of energy storage using dirt, winches, and cables set to be installed in Finland

1 month ago

Saturnian moon Mimas: Crunchy on the outside, sub-surface ocean on the inside -- Data from Cassini suggests hidden depths beneath crater-ridden body

1 month ago

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider - Vid - CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org's existing inspector bots - Science - 08 Feb 2024 - | 28

1 month ago

Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole -- Launch windows do not respect political squabbling

1 month ago

How Neuraspace aims to clean up orbital clutter with AI - Interview - Can tech and regulations beat the great satellite landgrab? AI + ML - 07 Feb 2024 - | 8

1 month ago

India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability -- Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025 -- Science

1 month ago

SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal -- Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off -- Personal Tech

1 month ago

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator -- The Future Circular Collider, if built, will be three times the size of the LHC -- Science

1 month ago

Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters -- Letter: Budget cuts will 'essentially cancel' daring multi vehicle project unless reversed -- 02 Feb 2024

1 month ago

Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough -- Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid -- 01 Feb 2024

1 month ago

DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy - Updated - Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us - Science - 31 Jan 2024 - | 8

1 month ago

Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk -- Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve? -- 31 Jan 2024

1 month ago

ESA salutes Galileo satellite system meeting aviation standards -- It's all in the software

1 month ago

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human -- Controling prostheses? Mr X imagines an app for that

1 month ago

ESA gives gravitational wave space probe LISA the nod for a 2035 launch -- Trio of spacecraft to capture ripples in spacetime

1 month ago

The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin -- Brain research could help find the right mix between handwriting and new technologies, researchers claim

1 month ago

Hubble telescope spots tiniest water-rich world in orbit -- Don't pack your swimming costumes as it could be more of a sauna planet

2 months ago

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more, but is still standing upright -- In Memoriam for plucky robot that brushed off dead sensors and dust like they were nothing

2 months ago

JAXA releases photo of SLIM lander in lunar faceplant -- Mission a 'minimum' success because rovers deployed successfully

2 months ago

Tiny asteroid's earthly fireworks predicted with pinpoint accuracy by NASA -- Last year it was over France. This year it was over Germany. Where will the rocks strike next?

2 months ago

OSIRIS-REx's stuck asteroid sample canister finally cracked open by NASA -- Space eggheads invent tools just to get that precious dust

2 months ago

Japan recovers moon lander data, puts craft to sleep due to solar panels' bad attitude -- JAXA plans to reveal whether mission nailed its self-selected landing site later this week

2 months ago

Sierra Space bursts full-scale inflatable space habitat module -- Pop goes the test article. As planned

2 months ago

NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again -- ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars

2 months ago

Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon -- The real SLIM's shady

2 months ago

Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon's rocky runway -- Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown

2 months ago

Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet -- Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project

2 months ago

Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion -- Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved the problem. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be

2 months ago

Crippled Peregrine lunar lander set for fiery return to Earth in matter of days -- Doing science and still alive ... but not for long

2 months ago

AI and robots join forces to cook up proteins faster -- Applications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration

2 months ago

NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane -- Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom

2 months ago

Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next -- Heads up, this isn't about Elon

2 months ago

Chinese company's rocket debut makes waves by launching from the sea -- Real-life Kerbal Space Program?

2 months ago

44-year-old Voyager 2 data sheds light on solar system's magnetic personalities -- Magnetosheath jets found around Earth may be present on other planets after Jupiter discovery

2 months ago

Boffins demo self-eating rocket engine in Scotland - Interview - Roll up, roll up. See Ouroboros-3 eating its own fuselage - Science - 10 Jan 2024 - | 58

2 months ago

NASA's Artemis Moon missions take a rain check until 2025 and beyond -- No human will set foot on regolith for 2-plus years now

2 months ago

Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared -- Gulp!

2 months ago

Private lunar lander Peregrine mission's now measured in hours, not days -- UK trumpets British tech aboard doomed spacecraft

2 months ago

COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave -- US, Netherlands, Germany all show spikes while UK no longer collects data

2 months ago

India to launch with SpaceX's Falcon 9 for the first time - ASIA IN BRIEF - Also: Huawei in patent deal with Nokia, and China slates 2025 as year for mass produced flying cars - Science - 09 Jan 2024 - | 3

2 months ago

America's first private lunar lander suffers 'critical' fuel leak en route to Moon - Updated - Astrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads may be a bust - Science - 08 Jan 2024 - | 38

2 months ago

NASA science bound for Moon after successful Vulcan Centaur launch -- Your turn, Starship

2 months ago

Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere -- It'll also cost billions, but perhaps a price worth paying?

2 months ago

Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed -- An electric airplane on Mars, micrograv hibernation, and plenty others

2 months ago