NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth Look out for a new star next week Science19 Apr 2024 | 4
NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts Science18 Apr 2024 | 11
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' Science18 Apr 2024 | 20
NASA confirms nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 Science17 Apr 2024 | 12
NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? Science16 Apr 2024 | 38
NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks Science16 Apr 2024 | 42
NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software Science15 Apr 2024 | 14
NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive Science04 Apr 2024 | 13
65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for' Science04 Apr 2024 | 16
US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone What's a few microseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually Science03 Apr 2024 | 60
NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics Science27 Mar 2024 | 6
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages Networks27 Mar 2024 | 2
DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with drafting lunar train blueprints Um. Let's successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite? Science20 Mar 2024 | 63
Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date Science19 Mar 2024 | 13
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs Public Sector15 Mar 2024 | 41
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers Science14 Mar 2024 | 101
NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble But Artemis is still OK, so that's alright then Science12 Mar 2024 | 9
NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August Science06 Mar 2024 | 4
NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs? Science04 Mar 2024 | 2
NASA's Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board The tech just isn't ready and clunky collab with ESA isn't helping, auditor finds Science04 Mar 2024 | 18
Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander Science27 Feb 2024 | 25
FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again You've heard of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. How about an energetic engine failure? Science27 Feb 2024 | 60
Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap How's that for resilient? Science27 Feb 2024 | 14
72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics Perseverance images show violent end to Ingenuity's final flight Science26 Feb 2024 | 23
Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now Science26 Feb 2024 | 33
NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday Science23 Feb 2024 | 19
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing Updated It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part Science22 Feb 2024 | 8
OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped 121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once Science16 Feb 2024 | 28
NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times Science16 Feb 2024 | 9
Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes Science15 Feb 2024 | 3
WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover Science15 Feb 2024 | 16
NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission? Ready for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court Science14 Feb 2024 | 18
50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth Around The World in 84 days Science10 Feb 2024 | 11
NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite 'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter Science09 Feb 2024 | 6
Work to resolve binary babble from Voyager 1 is ongoing You think your latency is bad? How about 45 hours to see if a command worked? The Reg in Space08 Feb 2024 | 34
Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole Launch windows do not respect political squabbling Science07 Feb 2024 | 26
40 years ago, an astronaut first took flight from the Space Shuttle Look Ma: no tether! The Reg in Space05 Feb 2024 | 9
Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters Letter: Budget cuts will 'essentially cancel' daring multi vehicle project unless reversed Science02 Feb 2024 | 19
A Space Shuttle goes vertical for one last time Endeavour raised into position for California Science Center's 'Go For Stack' Offbeat01 Feb 2024 | 10
Hubble telescope spots tiniest water-rich world in orbit Don't pack your swimming costumes as it could be more of a sauna planet Science27 Jan 2024 | 12
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more, but is still standing upright In Memoriam for plucky robot that brushed off dead sensors and dust like they were nothing Science26 Jan 2024 | 36
Tiny asteroid's earthly fireworks predicted with pinpoint accuracy by NASA Last year it was over France. This year it was over Germany. Where will the rocks strike next? Science25 Jan 2024 | 12
HPE's updated Spaceborne Computer-2 ready to hitch another ride to the ISS How's low Earth orbit for the edge? HPC24 Jan 2024 | 3
OSIRIS-REx's stuck asteroid sample canister finally cracked open by NASA Space eggheads invent tools just to get that precious dust Science23 Jan 2024 | 30
Sierra Space bursts full-scale inflatable space habitat module Pop goes the test article. As planned Science22 Jan 2024 | 23
NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars Science22 Jan 2024 | 18
Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon's rocky runway Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown Science18 Jan 2024 | 8
Crippled Peregrine lunar lander set for fiery return to Earth in matter of days Doing science and still alive ... but not for long Science15 Jan 2024 | 12
NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom Science13 Jan 2024 | 100
NASA's Artemis Moon missions take a rain check until 2025 and beyond No human will set foot on regolith for 2-plus years now Science10 Jan 2024 | 39
NASA science bound for Moon after successful Vulcan Centaur launch Your turn, Starship Science08 Jan 2024 | 13
Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed An electric airplane on Mars, micrograv hibernation, and plenty others Science06 Jan 2024 | 39
It's been two decades since Spirit landed on the red sands of Mars Decades, gone in a flash: Longlived mission was almost derailed by file system whoopsie Science05 Jan 2024 | 9
Juno's joyride around Jupiter snaps stellar shots of Io 'Magnificent' image shows violent volcanic surface Science02 Jan 2024 | 7
NASA's VIPER is half-built, with launch plans for this year Ice, ice maybe – water-seeking lunar trundlebot overcomes iffy connectors Science02 Jan 2024 | 10
NASA Juno probe to produce 'firehose of data' during close flyby of Jupiter moon Io, Io, it's off to work we go Science28 Dec 2023 | 21
30 years and still sunbathing: SOHO probe continues work as a space weatherman Space Extenders II From the cutting edge of physics research to a valuable monitoring tool Science26 Dec 2023 | 15
Data loss prevention isn't rocket science, but NASA hasn't made it work in Microsoft 365 Privacy review finds breach response plan is a mess, training could be better, but protection regime mostly holds up Public Sector21 Dec 2023 | 13
NASA makes purrrr-fect deep space transmission of cat vid Tabby footage crosses millions of miles and was still faster than most folks' home broadband Networks20 Dec 2023 | 18
Halley's Comet has begun its long trek back toward Earth Mark your diary for 2061 – if you're over the disappointment of 1986's fuzzy blob Science18 Dec 2023 | 24
Missing tomatoes ketchup with ISS crew after almost a year lost in space Sadly not saucy enough in this state for return trip to Earth Science15 Dec 2023 | 32