No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY
Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 1977
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri
Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships
Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time
NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date
Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK
Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact
Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision Support for e-MERLIN ends 2028 unless the historic radio astronomy center can find another source of cash
SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13 Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick
The last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?
SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't
SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort
NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad
AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure
Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble
India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit
Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though) First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy
Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price
Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos
New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch
Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander Jim Bridenstine says Artemis 'extraordinarily complicated' compared to the days of Apollo and the Saturn V
NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons Advanced Space's privately owned probe will keep flying, but the agency's role is over
Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium
Japan’s asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission - and sent back a pic, too
NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year There might also be a downside
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead
Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists
Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?
Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal
They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI
Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home
Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone
Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind
2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute
Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention
NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground
Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve
NASA management wants a word and won't say why A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew
Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks
NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered
MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?
UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US
Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired
Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready
Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted
NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit
Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?
Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!
Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars
ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks
Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul
