Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry Atmospheric drag brings an extraordinarily long-lived mission to a close
Musk disputes NASA safety panel's lunar launch estimates Watchdog also warns retiring Falcon and Dragon could leave US access to orbit short of a backup
Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time Not to kill the human, of course – to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection
Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century
Veteran ESA probe rolls out welcome mat for Japan's Phobos mission Mars Express could support MMX's 2027 arrival as another 'last ever' extension keeps old spacecraft in flight
HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end
In space, 'We've gone from exploration to exploitation,' says original Voyager team member Voyager imaging team member Dr. Garry Hunt joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches one light day's distance from Earth
Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug Cite difficulty of updating IoT devices as major reason to stop adding time
Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission ClearSpace UK aims to be operational in 2029 with public's suggestion etched on the side of the spacecraft
Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027 Carbon composite woes cause another delay for Peter Beck's Hungry Hippo
Leap seconds face judgment day as time lords prepare to vote Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries
Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030
Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks' Understanding why our nearest star does what it does
Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to Talking to an X-ray nanoprobe beamline is far better than talking to a toaster, we assume
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all
arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’ The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit
India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets A space station by 2035 is ISRO’s new mission
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight Chang'e 7 didn’t meet unspecified ‘launch requirements’
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
