Thursday, March 28, 2024 4:10 AM ET
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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 -- Science6 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 - | 75 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 -- Science6 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 regulators5 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 done6 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 home7 days ago
European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale -- Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space8 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 date8 days ago
Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage -- Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source13 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 engineers13 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 - | 1712 days ago
NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble -- But Artemis is still OK, so that's alright then15 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 wait16 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 - | 5810 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 survive19 days ago
Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too -- With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense20 days ago
Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries -- Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 202720 days ago
Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open -- Time flies for The Flies21 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 recently21 days ago
Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon -- To detect seismic waves, silly21 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 August22 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 moon22 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 finds23 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 202426 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 202426 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 202426 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 202426 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 bent1 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 flight1 month ago
Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell -- Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now1 month ago
Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science -- Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry1 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 Thursday1 month ago
Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told -- Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident1 month ago
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing - Updated - It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part - Science - 22 Feb 2024 - | 81 month ago
Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed -- Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency1 month ago
Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage -- Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering1 month ago
Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground -- Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency1 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 medicine1 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 once1 month ago
NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space -- Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times1 month ago
Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket -- Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes1 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 rover1 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' court1 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 names1 month ago
Japan's space program seeks reboot with Wednesday launch -- Second test flight for failed H3 booster after a run of bad luck1 month ago
50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth -- Around The World in 84 days1 month ago
Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high -- Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 20351 month ago
NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite -- 'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter1 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 Finland1 month ago
Saturnian moon Mimas: Crunchy on the outside, sub-surface ocean on the inside -- Data from Cassini suggests hidden depths beneath crater-ridden body1 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 - | 281 month ago
Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole -- Launch windows do not respect political squabbling1 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 - | 81 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 -- Science1 month ago
SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal -- Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off -- Personal Tech1 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 -- Science1 month ago
Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters -- Letter: Budget cuts will 'essentially cancel' daring multi vehicle project unless reversed -- 02 Feb 20241 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 20241 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 - | 81 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 20241 month ago
ESA salutes Galileo satellite system meeting aviation standards -- It's all in the software1 month ago
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human -- Controling prostheses? Mr X imagines an app for that1 month ago
ESA gives gravitational wave space probe LISA the nod for a 2035 launch -- Trio of spacecraft to capture ripples in spacetime1 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 claim1 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 planet2 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 nothing2 months ago
JAXA releases photo of SLIM lander in lunar faceplant -- Mission a 'minimum' success because rovers deployed successfully2 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 dust2 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 week2 months ago
Sierra Space bursts full-scale inflatable space habitat module -- Pop goes the test article. As planned2 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 Mars2 months ago
Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon -- The real SLIM's shady2 months ago
Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon's rocky runway -- Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown2 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 project2 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 be2 months ago
Crippled Peregrine lunar lander set for fiery return to Earth in matter of days -- Doing science and still alive ... but not for long2 months ago
AI and robots join forces to cook up proteins faster -- Applications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration2 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 boom2 months ago
Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next -- Heads up, this isn't about Elon2 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 discovery2 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 - | 582 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 now2 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 spacecraft2 months ago
COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave -- US, Netherlands, Germany all show spikes while UK no longer collects data2 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 - | 32 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 - | 382 months ago
NASA science bound for Moon after successful Vulcan Centaur launch -- Your turn, Starship2 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 others2 months ago