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
NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting
SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade? May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences
NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess
You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place
NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms
Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time 'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise
Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?
Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade
Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting
NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage
Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered
Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!
Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication protocol MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discovery
Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helping
White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record 'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration'
Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned
Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math
Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales with out-of-this-world price hikes Flights to resume in 2026 before space tourism biz runs out of cash
Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly' No risk to ISS or Artemis, but not ideal for operator peace of mind
Mars coughs up another maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology
Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby Orion's four astronauts edge toward liftoff for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than 50 years
Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunk
Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence
NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?
Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus
Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently
