SpaceX calendar marked with big red circle for 'first Starship launch' this month Waits for pen-pushers to sign off debut orbital mission Science11 Apr 2023 | 42
Astronomers clock runaway black hole leaving trail of fresh stars Move fast, make things Science09 Apr 2023 | 33
Move over, Google Earth. Caltech's here with a fresh 3D tour of Mars Alien dust world globe took three years of hand-stitching images to create Science08 Apr 2023 | 18
Virgin Obit: Launch company files for bankruptcy in US Just as namesake ISP Virgin Media* falls silent out of respect Science04 Apr 2023 | 22
NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight First for women, people of color, Canucks Science03 Apr 2023 | 46
India flies – and lands – reusable autonomous spaceplane Asia In Brief PLUS Japanese PM grilled by ChatGPT; Singapore slams bank outage; WeChat adds paid tier; and more Science02 Apr 2023 | 8
Astronomers (re)discover never-before-seen phenomenon on Saturn Rain of icy and rocky debris from rings was initially dismissed as bad data Science31 Mar 2023 | 11
Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of staff as funding deal falters Expenses slashed as hopes dashed for UK space pioneer Science31 Mar 2023 | 61
Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping Science31 Mar 2023 | 117
Boffins: Microgravity impacts cell repair systems in proteins Yeast-based study illuminates understanding of how 'nauts physiology may change in space Science30 Mar 2023 | 15
Boeing's first-ever crewed mission in Starliner ISS spacecraft delayed to late July Still hundreds of components, verification checks to complete before test flight Science30 Mar 2023 | 17
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here Science29 Mar 2023 | 28
Moon's glass beads contain enough water to support a mission Thought Icelandic glacier water was rare? How about chugging down some Moon water Science28 Mar 2023 | 33
Is Neuralink ready for human brain implants? Allegedly so We're sure Elon will be first in line as a test subject Science27 Mar 2023 | 30
Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed trip to the ISS delayed again over battery overheating risk May fly in the summer, with some presumably pretty nervous pilots Science26 Mar 2023 | 26
Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count Numerical abilities could be a hardwired, ancient feature of the developing vertebrate brain, study suggests Science24 Mar 2023 | 23
Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket, lifts off ... and fails to reach orbit Mission named 'Good Luck Have Fun' needed more of both Science23 Mar 2023 | 12
First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship Science23 Mar 2023 | 42
Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit Now all it has to do is land Science23 Mar 2023 | 16
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan Science22 Mar 2023 | 13
Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability? My goodness that's moist Science21 Mar 2023 | 14
NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess 13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm Science21 Mar 2023 | 8
Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware 65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution Science21 Mar 2023 | 42
Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science A 'new deal for the night' needed Science20 Mar 2023 | 24
Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats Extraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two Science20 Mar 2023 | 38
Capital crunch: Virgin Orbit confirms all ops on pause until Tuesday Staff reportedly furloughed as firm scrambles to find funding after failed launch Science16 Mar 2023 | 24
NASA spots first evidence of an active volcano on Venus – in a big pile of CD-ROMs Disc-trawling expedition of 30-year-old data turns up trumps Science16 Mar 2023 | 11
Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025 Charcoal gray with orange highlights – so chic, and so deliberately fake Science16 Mar 2023 | 62
Firefly gets nod from NASA to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon LuSEE in the sky with ... data Science15 Mar 2023 | 14
Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used NASA expects to spend about $1 billion to bring it down safely Science15 Mar 2023 | 132
China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck Mutant offspring of a semi and a trolleybus suggested as emission-cutting future of commercial transport Science15 Mar 2023 | 82
MIT researchers propose modular, multi-mission Moon robots Fancy playing with some space Lego? Science14 Mar 2023 | 1
Sandia opens up ultra-fast X-ray cameras to speedy shutterbugs Seriously, this tech makes your phone camera look like it's from the stone age Science14 Mar 2023 | 7
NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon Aims to look at the universe's dark ages without interference from Earth Science14 Mar 2023 | 51
Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth Luckily this rock is only about the size of the Arc de Triomphe, let alone the 600-to-1 chance Science12 Mar 2023 | 30
Boffins find 'missing link' between interstellar ice and what comes out of the tap Now drink your space juice Science10 Mar 2023 | 26
The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts Science09 Mar 2023 | 68
Inaugural flight of first (mostly) 3D-printed rocket aborted Relativity Space relatively grounded Science09 Mar 2023 | 10
Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects Very world-beating funding Science08 Mar 2023 | 65
Tech demo takes brain scan, creates a picture of what you're looking at Break out the tinfoil hats: Boffins' experimental tech improves computer mind reading Science07 Mar 2023 | 42
NASA fixes solar observation spacecraft by turning it off and turning it on again 'Firemode reset' sees Interstellar Boundary Explorer back on the job Science07 Mar 2023 | 41
Japan's next-gen H3 satellite launch vehicle fails on debut Destroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible Science07 Mar 2023 | 6
The cause of last December's failed satellite launch? Nozzle material, says ESA Arianespace Vega-C rocket failure sent two Airbus satellites into the Atlantic Ocean Science06 Mar 2023 | 8
China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency Asia In Brief PLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more Science06 Mar 2023 | 21
Why our solar-storm sats corrode – and probably not what you expected My dear, I do believe I have the vapors ... in spaaace Science04 Mar 2023 | 17
Hubble images photobombed by space hardware on the up Big brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy Science03 Mar 2023 | 25
To explore caves on Mars and the Moon, take a hint from Hansel & Gretel, say boffins Robot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to stay connected Science03 Mar 2023 | 31
China leads the world in tech research, could win the future, says think tank US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries Science03 Mar 2023 | 27
Space. The eventual frontier. This is the delayed journey of Crew-6 astronauts en route to the ISS SpaceX overcomes ground systems issue that halted previous launch attempt Science03 Mar 2023 |
Funnily enough, FDA forbids Elon Musk's Neuralink human experiments It's still coming soon ... just like it was in 2019, and 2020, and 2021, and 2022 Science02 Mar 2023 | 25
UK space faces cash freeze unless watchdogs step up 'Toxic' environment requires reboot to restore confidence following failed satellite launch Science02 Mar 2023 | 17
NASA finds crashing spacecraft into asteroids is a viable defence strategy Recoil from DART impact changed Dimorphos's orbit more than expected Science02 Mar 2023 | 37
Find pushes back birth of Europe's steel hardware to about 3,000 years ago Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool Science02 Mar 2023 | 47
Double trouble for NASA with two spacecraft on the fritz Interstellar Boundary Explorer isn't listening and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission off to unlucky start Science01 Mar 2023 | 3
Not just you in the night: Tiny bugs use superpropulsion to eject huge volumes of pee This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins Science01 Mar 2023 | 50
If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems Science01 Mar 2023 | 136
Ground equipment failure scrubs latest ISS SpaceX launch Crew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home Science27 Feb 2023 |
Chinese defence boffins ponder microwaving Starlink satellites to stop surveillance Beijing has filed the paperwork for its LEO constellation, but SpaceX is already there Science27 Feb 2023 | 94
It's getting crowded on the ISS: SpaceX Crew-6 to launch Monday NASA is used to dealing with extra guests: just sleep on the ceiling Science24 Feb 2023 | 4
China's Zhurong rover may be dead: NASA images show no sign of life Pic Or maybe it's just resting and pining for the fjords Science23 Feb 2023 | 11