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open DARPA's autonomous missile-firing missile advances toward flight tests 5
By ecofeco
Wednesday 18th February 2026 21:40 GMT
open Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds 38
By elsergiovolador
Wednesday 18th February 2026 17:03 GMT
open NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results 14
By LogicGate
Wednesday 18th February 2026 11:39 GMT
open Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit 4
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 16th February 2026 01:12 GMT
open Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration 18
By Arthur the cat
Sunday 15th February 2026 17:30 GMT
open NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission 3
By Throatwarbler Mangrove
Thursday 12th February 2026 22:32 GMT
open Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency 14
By DS999
Wednesday 11th February 2026 22:35 GMT
open SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city 37
By TangoDelta72
Thursday 12th February 2026 02:33 GMT
open Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development 20
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 9th February 2026 08:12 GMT
open Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook 26
By Eric 9001
Tuesday 17th February 2026 04:12 GMT
open Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station 50
By Dagg
Tuesday 10th February 2026 06:06 GMT
open US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes 10
By MonsieurTM
Thursday 5th February 2026 18:51 GMT
open SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly 10
By Oneman2Many
Saturday 14th February 2026 19:22 GMT
open NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test 34
By cray74
Thursday 5th February 2026 19:53 GMT
open NASA taps Claude to conjure Mars rover's travel plan 20
By LybsterRoy
Monday 2nd February 2026 12:27 GMT
open Mechanical mutts make it official: Now full-time at Sellafield's hot zones 40
By TDog
Monday 2nd February 2026 17:00 GMT
open Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules 25
By cd
Saturday 31st January 2026 19:35 GMT
open Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA 70
By JoeCool
Friday 30th January 2026 16:47 GMT
open NASA begins formal anomaly review after MAVEN probe lost in space 16
By CrustyEnginerd
Wednesday 28th January 2026 16:30 GMT
open NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter 9
By Zenubi
Wednesday 28th January 2026 12:56 GMT
open Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan 42
By The Organ Grinder's Monkey
Tuesday 3rd February 2026 01:35 GMT
open NASA planet hunter resumes operations after low power incident 1
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 24th January 2026 00:42 GMT
open Rocket Lab's Neutron schedule under pressure after unexpected tank rupture 8
By NetMage
Monday 26th January 2026 17:23 GMT
open MIT boffins create device that 'paints' iridescent structural color in real time 34
By Jou (Mxyzptlk)
Friday 23rd January 2026 16:22 GMT
open Dead batteries cough up lithium after a bath in CO₂ and water, boffins say 34
By TVU
Thursday 22nd January 2026 16:19 GMT
open NASA's Artemis II Moon rocket arrives at the launch pad 26
By MachDiamond
Friday 23rd January 2026 18:42 GMT
open Congress throws NASA a lifeline, leaves Mars sample mission to die in the dust 22
By Oneman2Many
Monday 19th January 2026 13:36 GMT
open India’s flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row 12
By Raj
Wednesday 21st January 2026 20:58 GMT
open ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness 12
By The Organ Grinder's Monkey
Wednesday 14th January 2026 10:09 GMT
open NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare 11
By DoctorPaul
Tuesday 13th January 2026 14:20 GMT
open Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars 20
By Ken Shabby
Sunday 11th January 2026 06:29 GMT
open ISS spacewalk postponed over mystery astronaut malady 22
By herman
Saturday 10th January 2026 20:29 GMT
open Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first 35
By 4d3fect
Sunday 11th January 2026 16:49 GMT
open New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom 41
By Anonymous Coward
Sunday 11th January 2026 23:29 GMT
open Historic NASA test towers face their final countdown 15
By herman
Thursday 8th January 2026 19:57 GMT
open Congress ctrl-Zs bulk of proposed cuts to NASA science 41
By JohnSheeran
Thursday 8th January 2026 15:52 GMT
open Satellite radio transmissions are jamming telescopes and driving astronomers batty 22
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 6th January 2026 17:35 GMT
open iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers 45
By MachDiamond
Sunday 4th January 2026 05:37 GMT
open NASA tries Curiosity rover's Mastcam to work out where MAVEN might be 9
By Will Godfrey
Sunday 28th December 2025 16:51 GMT
open Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth 57
By Alan Brown
Sunday 4th January 2026 04:20 GMT
open Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried 8
By Gene Cash
Tuesday 23rd December 2025 13:21 GMT
open Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon 63
By ADG101
Monday 29th December 2025 22:13 GMT
open Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt 12
By Oneman2Many
Saturday 20th December 2025 21:55 GMT
open NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth 26
By Excused Boots
Thursday 18th December 2025 23:11 GMT
open Japan just sent origami to space to unfurl possibilities for outsized antennas 5
By Throatwarbler Mangrove
Monday 15th December 2025 16:10 GMT
open Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite 47
By MachDiamond
Thursday 18th December 2025 21:40 GMT
open The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens 94
By Catkin
Saturday 27th December 2025 19:56 GMT
open Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms 102
By MachDiamond
Thursday 18th December 2025 20:35 GMT
open Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk 19
By collinsl
Wednesday 17th December 2025 13:52 GMT
open Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion 16
By Bebu sa Ware
Friday 12th December 2025 08:51 GMT

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