America's National Science Foundation workers fired in bulk by Trump reinstated
Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's now Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure
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SpaceX receives FAA blessing for another Starship test
Flying to the Turks and Caicos tonight? Good luck
Science03 Mar 2025 | 27
Polish space agency confirms cyberattack
Officials vow to uncover who was behind it
Ransomware in Focus03 Mar 2025 | 1
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech
Science03 Mar 2025 | 22
ESA's Integral gamma-ray gazer gasps its last
After almost 23 years on the job, observations end for 2029 re-entry
Science28 Feb 2025 | 7
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot
Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction
Science27 Feb 2025 | 13
DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'
How to make them, and what to use them for
Science27 Feb 2025 | 39
SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop
All fixed for Flight Test Eight, OK?
Science26 Feb 2025 | 34
The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin
Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory
Science25 Feb 2025 | 9
SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland
Oxygen leak blamed for a lack of deorbit burn
Science24 Feb 2025 | 53
Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see
Analysis Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising
Science23 Feb 2025 | 261
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash
Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes
Networks21 Feb 2025 | 26
Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027
Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew
Science21 Feb 2025 | 136
National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future
Feature An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more
Science21 Feb 2025 | 140
NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan?
Comment Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission
Science20 Feb 2025 | 74
France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run
Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance
Science20 Feb 2025 | 49
Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight
Updated Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too
Science19 Feb 2025 | 37
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites
Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone
Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1
Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward
It's probably fine
Science19 Feb 2025 | 51
Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other
Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched
Science19 Feb 2025 | 24
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Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke
Open source browser maker ties itself up in legalese and explanations
US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Phishing suspects used fishing gear as alibi; Apple's 'Find My' can track PCs and Androids; and more
Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors
Opinion Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go
Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal
Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech
Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender
Who, Me? Don’t trust your tired self to do rm -rf right
Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows
Some may have second thoughts about going all-in with an American vendor, no matter where their data is stored
Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes
Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot?
Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was
Analysis Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts
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City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth
Scientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact
Science18 Feb 2025 | 29
There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032
Very unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does
Science17 Feb 2025 | 61
International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15
The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe
Science14 Feb 2025 | 14
Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel
Student shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking
Science13 Feb 2025 | 27
DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech
Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real
Science12 Feb 2025 | 4
James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world
40 m or 90 m? The difference matters in the case of impact
Science12 Feb 2025 | 33
SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early
'Stranded' Starliner astronauts set for a March homecoming
Science12 Feb 2025 | 8
Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation
Einstein’s spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade
Science12 Feb 2025 | 57
RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101
Obit Engineer was behind the HEC series and more
Science11 Feb 2025 | 52
NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts
'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon
Off-Prem11 Feb 2025 | 38
Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way
Overdue, over budget and now... perhaps just over?
Science10 Feb 2025 | 41
New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned
Vladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years
Science08 Feb 2025 | 21
Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out
Funding freeze while Feds review priorities
Science07 Feb 2025 | 64
NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco
Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water
Science07 Feb 2025 | 22
Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet
Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear
Science06 Feb 2025 | 9
Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party
Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter
Science05 Feb 2025 | 14
Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight
Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers
Science05 Feb 2025 | 24
Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024
More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters
Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 31
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough
Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push
Science03 Feb 2025 | 17
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price
Special report Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that?
Science02 Feb 2025 | 226
'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk
Sunita Williams lays claim to lead for female EVAs
Science31 Jan 2025 | 27
European Space Agency picks Thales Alenia Space to build lunar lander
ESA and the Argonauts
Science31 Jan 2025 | 10
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032
Video Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly
Science31 Jan 2025 | 75
A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles
Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing
Science30 Jan 2025 | 30
And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples
It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report
Science30 Jan 2025 | 22
Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts
SpaceX was already planning to return 'virtually abandoned' astros. Did Elon forget?
Science29 Jan 2025 | 93
40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw
O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later
Science28 Jan 2025 | 38
Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid
Without central repository for artificial objects, it'll only get worse
Offbeat27 Jan 2025 | 55
Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course
Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line
Science24 Jan 2025 | 17
NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life
Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans
Science22 Jan 2025 | 14
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that
Science22 Jan 2025 | 74
Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent
Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon
Science22 Jan 2025 | 30
Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming
Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation
Science21 Jan 2025 | 9
Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars
Comment So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have?
Science21 Jan 2025 | 166
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes
Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment'
Science20 Jan 2025 | 22
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper
Gaia makes its final science observation
Science18 Jan 2025 | 11
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero
Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
Science17 Jan 2025 | 118
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery
Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered
Science16 Jan 2025 | 60
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit
As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter
Science16 Jan 2025 | 14
SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon
Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace?
Science15 Jan 2025 | 22
Blue Origin gives up on New Glenn lift-off, 2 hours into launch window
Updated Vehicle subsystem concerns blamed for scrub
Science13 Jan 2025 | 35
Blue Origin postpones New Glenn's maiden flight to January 12
Now set for the day before SpaceX's next Starship test
Science10 Jan 2025 | 50
NASA's lunar Roomba set to suck up Moon dirt for study
Collecting regolith samples with a blast of gas
Science09 Jan 2025 | 21
Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
Updated Crews battle to keep people, homes, science safe
Science08 Jan 2025 | 62
NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options left
JPL's sky crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7B contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA
Science08 Jan 2025 | 10
DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research
Updated Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction
Research08 Jan 2025 | 24
Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station
Carefully crafted wooden box, LignoSat, is on its own
Science08 Jan 2025 | 48
First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10
Bezos booster finally ready for action
Science07 Jan 2025 | 21
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error
Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol
AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 57
SpaceX will try satellite deployment on next Starship test
Ten suborbital Starlink simulators to be flung from Musk's spacecraft
Science06 Jan 2025 | 71
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators
New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA
Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second
You may not need that high-bandwidth brain-computer interface
Science01 Jan 2025 | 92
Jimmy Carter set the solar, space, and environmental pace
obituary The former president, passed at 100 this week, was also an early email adopter
Offbeat30 Dec 2024 | 40
Blue Origin inches closer to the first New Glenn flight
Final big tests done and engines fired up for a few seconds. Next stop ... space?
Science30 Dec 2024 | 34
Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth
This was a triumph
Science27 Dec 2024 | 58
Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve
Ho-ho-holy heatshield!
Science23 Dec 2024 | 37
Rocks from Chinese Moon mission suggest Luna's history needs revision
Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade
Science20 Dec 2024 | 18
Axiom Space shuffles space station assembly sequence – to get it standalone sooner
Aiming to be freeflying by 2028. Handy if anything should happen to the ISS
Science19 Dec 2024 | 21
Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays
Week-long mission set to stretch into ninth month
Science19 Dec 2024 | 97
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
Feature Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong?
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 93
SpaceX rocketeers get fresh FAA license for next Starship launch
Authorization comes less than a month after flight 6: 'The FAA continues to increase efficiencies'
Science18 Dec 2024 | 58
Silent NASA lander gives boffins insight into Martian dust
NASA to bid a final farewell to InSight
Science17 Dec 2024 | 8
Ingenuity helicopter's flying days cut short by featureless Martian terrain
Landing hard at an angle not great for the old rotor blades
Science13 Dec 2024 | 31
Astroscale orbital janitor gets within 15 meters of space junk
Couldn't reach out and touch it, but still happy as this attempt was out of mission scope
Science13 Dec 2024 | 23
China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse
Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut
Science12 Dec 2024 | 6
A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment
Hopefully it won't be another 10 years before the capsule is troubled by a crew
Science11 Dec 2024 | 6
Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up
2025 looming large as Blue Ring pathfinder prepped for liftoff
Science11 Dec 2024 | 28
Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit
Starlink satellites might annoy astronomers, but at least they're easy to spot
Science09 Dec 2024 | 2
Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains
Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province?
Science09 Dec 2024 | 48
India launches two ESA sun-spotters that will fly in incredibly precise formation
Proba-3's Occulter will blot out the sun to create eclipse-like effect Coronagraph can observe
Science09 Dec 2024 | 14
British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five
Video Carbon-14 decay could be coming to an implant in you
Science08 Dec 2024 | 49
Vega-C finally launches ESA's next Sentinel satellite
Return to flight almost two years since the previous endeavor failed
Science06 Dec 2024 | 7
NASA finds Orion heatshield cracks won't cook Artemis II crew
Lunar flights therefore set for seven-month delay and change re-entry approach, but redesign not needed
Science06 Dec 2024 | 39
Arianespace's Vega C delayed after gantry throws a tantrum
Euro rocket stuck on the ground for another day
Science05 Dec 2024 | 17
Temporary printable tattoos could be the future of EEGs
Boffins' big brainwave of using custom skullcaps to capture, er, more brainwaves
Science05 Dec 2024 | 25
Trump wants SpaceX customer Jared Isaacman as next NASA boss
Billionaire space tourist and mate of Elon pledges Americans will get to Mars
Science04 Dec 2024 | 41
Europe's Vega C rocket cleared for launch tonight, first since 2022
Nozzle woes in the past for continent's new launcher
Science04 Dec 2024 | 18
SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset
Probe may not make it to 30 as funding runs out and replacement is launched
Science03 Dec 2024 | 24
China launches first next-gen Long March 12 rocket, christens private spaceport
Won't scare SpaceX as it's not reusable, but will help Beijing do things like launch broadband sats
Science02 Dec 2024 | 3
NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom
Feature Pilot James 'Clue' Less is ready to take to the skies
Science30 Nov 2024 | 66
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