Astroboffins spot high-power 8b year old radio burst from pre-Earth event
Signal could help astronomers suss out the mass of the universe
Science20 Oct 2023 | 4
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NASA celebrates 40 years of Discovery, the longest-serving Space Shuttle
OV-103 was there for Hubble and the assembly of the ISS
Science19 Oct 2023 | 10
Mars chilled for aeons, but stayed so stressed it gets crusty marsquakes
Multiple orbiters failed to find a crater matching rumble. Boffins now blame Red planet's internal problems
Science19 Oct 2023 | 7
Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy
Smaller, quieter, and expected to deliver millions of packages in coming years
Science19 Oct 2023 | 47
Now we can blame spacecraft for polluting the atmosphere
'My god, it's full of aerosolized metals!'
Science18 Oct 2023 | 11
Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid
Spending needs to double to $600B by 2030 if we want to stay within 2°C warming
Science18 Oct 2023 | 87
Moonstruck Modi wants lunar Indian crew by 2040
A space station, Venus, and Mars also on the cards but the budget is TBD
Science18 Oct 2023 | 5
Boris Johnson's mad hydrogen for homes bubble bursts
It was a gas while it lasted but 'no public policy' to replace natural gas for heating
Science18 Oct 2023 | 298
Bezos' engineers dream of Blue Ring space platform in orbit by 2025
A little optimistic, given Blue Origin can't even deliver it themselves yet
Science17 Oct 2023 | 19
Falcon Heavy sends NASA probe to metal-rich asteroid Psyche
Is SpaceX psyching out the competition?
Science17 Oct 2023 | 26
NASA reschedules Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight for mid-April 2024
Given they're still trying to fix the capsule's parachute the astronauts better say their prayers
Science13 Oct 2023 | 21
Engineers pave the way for building lunar roads with Moon dust
Just melt it with lasers, say researchers in Germany
Science12 Oct 2023 | 34
NASA's Psyche asteroid mission suffers another heavenly holdup
Dodgy weather results in a launch postponement
Science12 Oct 2023 |
Mars helicopter to try for new speed record on Thursday
57 flights past expected lifetime and still improving
Science12 Oct 2023 | 37
Bennu unboxing shows ancient asteroid holds carbon and water
Just some building blocks for life – in a few billion years, who knows what could develop?
Science12 Oct 2023 | 14
Delays to NASA's in-orbit satellite refueling robot to push costs over $2B target
Contractor blamed by watchdog for late SPIDER arm work
Science11 Oct 2023 | 3
Astronomers spot collision between two exoplanets, both feared vaporized
Dust blocks light from Sun-like star as far-off worlds meet
Science11 Oct 2023 | 24
Russian Nauka module plays leak-a-boo with International Space Station
Faulty backup radiator is bleeding coolant into the black
Science10 Oct 2023 | 9
ESA's Vega rocket delivers Taiwanese and Thai satellites to low Earth orbit
Also on board, cubesat that dodges space debris with plasma braking technology
Science09 Oct 2023 | 1
Two Project Kuiper prototype satellites finally reach orbit
Hey – gotta start somewhere
Science09 Oct 2023 | 6
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In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk
Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs
Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle
Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account
Nokia to erase up to 14,000 employees from payroll
Profits plunge, sales down in Q3. Multi-year cost cutting drive means staff will be decimated
First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe
Comment Plus: Working from home is 'detached from reality' says world's richest man
Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels
'Their future is murky at the moment'
Casio keyed up after data loss hits customers in 149 countries
Crooks broke into the ClassPad server and swiped online learning database
Making the problem go away is not the same thing as fixing it
On Call The difference is especially stark at 2:00 AM
Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft
Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token
Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy
Smaller, quieter, and expected to deliver millions of packages in coming years
Corner cutting of nuclear proportions as duo admit to falsifying safety tests 29 times
No word on motivation but pair face up to 5 years in the cooler
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Beethoven and Brahms move audience members to synchronization symphony
Music sets hearts beating in lockstep, researchers find
Science07 Oct 2023 | 13
Elon Musk's ambitions for Starship soar high while reality waits on launchpad
Comment Monster rocket yet to trouble orbit, let alone the Red Planet
Science06 Oct 2023 | 83
ESA funds space weather satellite swarm to understand and combat orbital debris
Prof warns El Reg solar storms may cause cascading collisions that make some orbits unusable
Science06 Oct 2023 | 12
UK and Japan space agencies team for orbital telemetry network
InRange will eliminate reliance on line of sight for the H3 launcher
Science06 Oct 2023 | 2
Fujitsu, RIKEN open Japan's first superconducting quantum 'puter to eggheads
64-qubit system paired with 40-qubit simulator to get some sort of accuracy
Science05 Oct 2023 | 3
NASA taking its time unboxing asteroid sample because it grabbed too much stuff
Dirty deed, done in deep space
Science05 Oct 2023 | 17
Tweaked Space Shuttle Main Engine gets ready for final testing
NASA will run out of RS-25s to drop into the ocean unless the production line restarts
Science04 Oct 2023 | 32
Red Planet roommates have been stuck on 'Mars' together for 100 days
Simulation milestone coincides with NASA's 65th birthday – will it manage the real thing before its centenary?
Science04 Oct 2023 | 16
Astronomers debate whether or not lightning strikes even once on Venus
Where are the bolts of light? Why are the low-frequency radio waves lightning makes going backwards?
Science04 Oct 2023 | 9
5G satellite briefly becomes brightest object in night sky
With more constellations on the horizon, scientists call for better approval of launches
Science03 Oct 2023 | 34
ESA delays Vega-C's return after nozzle design fails tests
Eurolauncher won't fly again until 2024 as it awaits another redesign
Science03 Oct 2023 | 7
NASA awards $1.5m for 'three steps to Mars' astronaut health program
One (very) small leap for humanity's future in space
Science02 Oct 2023 | 3
NASA's New Horizons probe scores extended vacation in Kuiper Belt
Good news: More science. Bad news: Somebody has to pay for it
Science02 Oct 2023 | 2
Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years
It's about time!
Science02 Oct 2023 | 47
NASA delays already-late $1B Psyche probe's visit to metal-rich asteroid
Given it was first due to blast off last year, what's another week or so?
Science30 Sep 2023 | 11
Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally home after over a year in orbit
Rubio spent 371 days on the ISS, the longest any American has been aloft
Science28 Sep 2023 | 3
Perseverance rover sets a Martian speed record with software controls
347.7 meters in a day - humans could probably do better
Science27 Sep 2023 | 7
The alternative to stopping climate change is untested carbon capture tech
We could do most of what we need to prevent 1.5°C warming now; reversing it will be nigh impossible
Science27 Sep 2023 | 86
CERN experiment proves gravity pulls antimatter the way Einstein predicted
Why there is not a lot more of it is yet to be explained though
Science27 Sep 2023 | 34
Bids for ISS demolition rights are now open, NASA declares
Winning spacecraft will dock with the station at least a year before go time
Science27 Sep 2023 | 54
Researchers train an AI system to find extraterrestrial life
Machine learning model touted as ideal for finding LGMs on Mars, and beyond
Science27 Sep 2023 | 26
China identifies AI, optoelectric semiconductors, as challenges it wants to crack
Underwater comms make list of 14 techs at which Beijing hopes to do better
Science26 Sep 2023 | 2
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is in danger of never launching
Review board: Mega project is way over budget, needs cash, and senators want it axed
Science25 Sep 2023 | 22
OSIRIS-REx successfully delivers NASA's first asteroid sample
Molto Bennu
Science25 Sep 2023 | 18
FAA wants rocket jockeys to clean up after their space launch parties
Have you seen orbit? There's junk everywhere
Science22 Sep 2023 | 6
Neuralink's looking for participants willing to be part of human trials
Musk company gets FDA's OK for six-year assessment of its brain implants
Science20 Sep 2023 | 26
Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss
Douglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe
Science20 Sep 2023 | 43
DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs
And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain!
Science19 Sep 2023 | 8
Rocket Lab launch streak goes up in smoke with 41st mission
Electron rocket was lost when reusable first stage separated early this morning
Science19 Sep 2023 | 10
US Defense Department enlists Google for AI-powered cancer-spotting kit
A different type of ARM - the Augmented Reality Microscope
Science19 Sep 2023 | 1
World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second
US DoE particle will be a 'strobe light' in atomic disco
Science18 Sep 2023 | 15
Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement
Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick?
Science18 Sep 2023 | 68
Apples to apples: Boffins find a way to make e-waste edible
We're rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics
Science18 Sep 2023 | 7
UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM
How about the ministers go next?
Science14 Sep 2023 | 56
Scientists spot startlingly close black holes in Hyades star cluster
Black hole stun: They're more than 1,400 light years closer than the previous record holder
Science14 Sep 2023 | 40
Amazon's three rocket makers insist Project Kuiper will launch on schedule
It's not as if space is hard, is it?
Science13 Sep 2023 | 8
Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972
Humans just can't leave anything alone, huh
Science13 Sep 2023 | 104
South Korea's Moon orbiter snaps India's lander
As Japan's space agency preps a rover to land on Martian moon Phobos
Science13 Sep 2023 | 7
James Webb spies distant exoplanet that could be wet, wild, and Hycean
That or it's just really gassy
Science12 Sep 2023 | 12
MOXIE microwaved Mars air into oxygen, but now it's time for a breather
Concept will need to be scaled up to keep more than a small dog alive
Science11 Sep 2023 | 19
Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border
Deposit in 19-million-year old caldera could dwarf sources in Bolivia, Chile and Australia
Science11 Sep 2023 | 20
Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles
Soldiers, first responders may eventually be able to phone home from their clothes
Science09 Sep 2023 | 31
NASA rockets draining its pockets as officials whisper: 'We can't afford this'
Watchdog finds space agency has no plans to measure SLS production costs
Science08 Sep 2023 | 84
Musk's mighty missile is ready for launch once FAA says OK
Updated Starship Super Heavy to remain on terra firma until US watchdog ticks off the corrective actions
Science07 Sep 2023 | 96
UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program
Two and a half years after Brexit, some cheer for scientists based in Britain. We're... baaaaxit (sorry!)
Science07 Sep 2023 | 156
Scientists turn to mid-20th century tech for low-power underwater comms
Hat tip to the late Lester Clare Van Atta, whose array is behind the system
Science07 Sep 2023 | 19
Japan's 'Moon sniper' and its two ejectable landers make it into space
Now for the hard part: testing its ability to pick a safe landing spot
Science07 Sep 2023 | 6
India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission hibernates to see out a long lunar night
Spacecraft scheduled to snooze until September 22 when it's hoped machines return to duty
Science06 Sep 2023 | 9
Europe's Ariane 6 takes rocket science seriously by testing patience before engines
Four seconds of fire and fury to be followed by eight minutes then... a launch in 2024?
Science05 Sep 2023 | 10
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with its first-ever asteroid sample
Regolith scraped from the surface of Bennu will reach Earth on 24 September
Science01 Sep 2023 | 27
Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests
Scientists one step closer to cracking the case of these atomic swine
Science31 Aug 2023 | 137
Meteorite is 4.6 billion years old and still rocking the solar system dating scene
Presence of aluminum isotope might help age other objects from space
Science30 Aug 2023 | 4
India set to launch Sun-spotting satellite on Saturday
Meanwhile its Moon rover dodges a crater and spots sulphur
Science30 Aug 2023 | 5
Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster
Asks Beijing to stop the phone calls harassing civilians, as tests show impact of nuke plant water
Science29 Aug 2023 | 107
Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
Discrimination lawsuit claims company's 'ITAR' excuse was badly wrong
Science25 Aug 2023 | 68
India's Moon mission continues to triumph, Japan's waits for better weather
JAXA's SLIM scheduled to arrive after Chandrayaan-3 says goodnight
Science25 Aug 2023 | 7
Concorde? Pffft. NASA wants a Mach 4 passenger jet
Don't get too excited: We're purely in the 'is this possible' stage right now
Science24 Aug 2023 | 107
Neighbors angry as another North Korean 'satellite' launch attempt fails
US, Japan, and South Korea are well and truly over this sham
Science24 Aug 2023 | 19
China's top EV battery maker announced a breakthrough, but top boffin isn't convinced
400km range after 10 minutes charging sounds great. Shame the details are thin
Science24 Aug 2023 | 96
India lands Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Moon, is the first to lunar south pole
Video with update Way to go, ISRO. Congrats on getting your rover rolling, too
Science23 Aug 2023 | 51
Space junk targeted for cleanup mission was hit by different space junk, making more space junk
Of all the spacecraft in all the orbits around the world, it slams into mine
Science23 Aug 2023 | 41
IBM sells off cloud business – yes, we mean Weather.com
What better time for private equity to capitalize on changing climate
Science22 Aug 2023 | 14
Lockheed's ARRW hypersonic missile: Sometimes it flies, sometimes it just tries
US Air Force keeping mum on results of weekend test
Science22 Aug 2023 | 15
Budget satellite drag sail shows space junk how to gracefully exit orbit
Students prove $30 device could help declutter Earth's backyard
Science22 Aug 2023 | 32
NASA still serious about astronauts living it up on Moon space station in 2028
Assuming the orbital hotel is even built by then
Science22 Aug 2023 | 36
Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud
First lunar attempt since Soviet era ends in катастрофа
Science21 Aug 2023 | 132
Hold the Moon – NASA's buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles
If a facility falls down, 'the microscope inside it is useless to you'
Science18 Aug 2023 | 64
US Space Force finally creates targeting unit – better late than never, right?
No rush on this seemingly vital component of defense, guys
Science17 Aug 2023 | 14
Brainwaves rock! Scientists decode Pink Floyd tune straight from the noggin
First up: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1
Science17 Aug 2023 | 38
DARPA wants interoperability standard for Moon living
Less lunacy? LunA-10 is seeking designs for 'optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure'
Science16 Aug 2023 | 5
Downloading the Webb Scope's data starts with a 6-month scheduling scramble
Missions bid to secure comms time on Deep Space Network
Science16 Aug 2023 | 8
Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people
Taming that unforgiving dust world may be significantly less expensive than anticipated
Science16 Aug 2023 | 130
Saturn's mega-storms challenge planetary formation models
Storms on Saturn last for hundreds of years, leaving long-lasting impacts and raising lots of scientific questions
Science15 Aug 2023 | 3
If you're Russian to the Moon, expect traffic: Moscow's Putin a lander into orbit
India's close to landing one, too, and Japan is counting down to a launch
Science14 Aug 2023 | 25
Curiosity finds evidence of wet and dry seasons on ancient Mars
Scientists: Martian mud cracked in a manner that only happens after repeated cycles of drying
Science12 Aug 2023 | 38
Virgin Galactic sends oldest-ever Brit and first mother-daughter duo into space-ish
Depending on where you draw the line
Science11 Aug 2023 | 34
Think International Space Station dust is obviously free of bad chemicals? Wrong
No one's in danger but we may need to rethink some cabin materials
Science11 Aug 2023 | 29
Most distant observed star is blue – and it isn't alone
Light from Earendel takes 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, and it's serendipitous the JWST can see it at all
Science10 Aug 2023 | 32
Never mind room temperature, LK-99 slammed as 'not a superconductor at all'
It may actually be the anti-superconductor, quips one research team
Science09 Aug 2023 | 29
Researchers discover algorithm to create shapes that roll down pre-determined paths
Lopsided solids promise applications in quantum mechanics and medicine
Science09 Aug 2023 | 4
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