International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15
The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe
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Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel
Student shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking
Science13 Feb 2025 | 25
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 | 29
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 | 51
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 | 37
Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way
Overdue, over budget and now... perhaps just over?
Science10 Feb 2025 | 39
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 | 16
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
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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 | 37
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 | 54
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
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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 | 117
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
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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 | 30
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 | 21
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
SpaceX hits 400 launches of Falcon 9 rocket
Yet another batch of Starlink satellites mark the milestone
Science29 Nov 2024 | 56
Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium
Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too
Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55
'Best job at JPL': What it's like to be an engineer on the Voyager project
Feature 'I love this work. I love what I'm doing. It's so cool'
Science28 Nov 2024 | 34
China starts building world's largest fully steerable radio telescope
120-meter colossus expected to be online in 2028 – around the same time the Square Kilometer Array
Science28 Nov 2024 | 26
Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find
Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms
Science25 Nov 2024 | 78
Musk agrees with fan that worries over orbital Starlink traffic a 'silly narrative'
Forget the 10x programmer. How about 10x satellites?
Networks25 Nov 2024 | 63
SpaceX closing in on approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025
Draft environmental assessment ready for public scrutiny
Science22 Nov 2024 | 23
India's Moon orbiter was shifted suddenly to avoid Korea's and NASA's craft
Apparently there's not enough space in space
Science22 Nov 2024 | 31
SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch
In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions
Science20 Nov 2024 | 201
Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened
Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up
Science19 Nov 2024 | 23
NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers
$45K says you can do it without a lunar rover
Science18 Nov 2024 | 62
UK test-fires Spear mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters
2-way datalink allows in-flight info updates including retargeting and abort
Public Sector18 Nov 2024 | 78
NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode
Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic
Science18 Nov 2024 | 26
First looks at China's Moon rock samples suggest Luna had volcanoes for longer than previously thought
Stuff from the far side is basalt - but less KREEP-y than expected
Science18 Nov 2024 | 1
Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff
Video Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days
Science14 Nov 2024 | 48
SpaceX Starship moved to launchpad for 6th flight test
Yes, the heat shield has been tweaked. But there's also a banana for scale
Science14 Nov 2024 | 16
Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software
Updated Dam, the consequences
Software14 Nov 2024 | 80
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to eject hundreds more workers
Budget constraints result in 'painful but necessary adjustments'
Science13 Nov 2024 | 35
California's last nuclear plant turns to generative AI for filing and finding the fine print
Diablo Canyon gets nifty new tech to … speed up document retrieval?
Science13 Nov 2024 | 11
UK's Darpa clone faces tough test next spring as government considers future funding
With plant platforms and neural circuits on the program, Aria's leadership hope cross-party concensus continues
Public Sector13 Nov 2024 | 11
What might a second term of Trump mean for the US space program?
Moon, Mars, and Mayhem?
Science12 Nov 2024 | 73
SpaceX Dragon gives ISS a helping hand with altitude
Demonstration paves way for more reboosts before station's eventual deorbit
Science11 Nov 2024 | 28
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