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open Nikola founder faces ranch forfeiture following fraud conviction 13
By Rod.h
open Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe 97
open Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side 25
open FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again 60
By cray74
open ESA's ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted 6
open Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap 14
open 72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics 23
open It is a bird, a plane or a Chinese spy balloon? None of the above 26
open Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell 33
open Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science 7
By fishman
open Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp 77
By thomn8r
open Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint 31
By dwrolfe
open BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies 95
open NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too 19
open Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told 41
open Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing 8
open Japanese Yakuza boss charged with nuclear trafficking by the US 15
By ecofeco
open Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030 57
open Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer 8
open A small Alaska town wants a big bronze Riker 20
By Badbob
open London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale 67
open Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite 139
open Microsoft veteran on how to blue screen your way to better testing 18
open Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed 23
open Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage 11
open Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground 36
open Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable 297
open Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G 12
By Roland6
open OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped 28
By cray74
open NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space 9
By Meph
open Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket 3
By phuzz
open WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age 16
open Roses are red, violets are blue, Opera GX gives Valentine's a gray, rainy hue 1
By xyz
open NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission? 18
open Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all 212
open Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason 45
open Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry 46
open Japan's space program seeks reboot with Wednesday launch 6
open Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours 81
open 50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth 11
open California proposes government cloud cluster to sift out nasty AI models 1
open BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment 76
By herman
open Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high 40
open NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite 6
By ldo
open Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery 89
open Fintech engineer grounded by crypto fraud caper, including $300m spoof trades 9
open Saturnian moon Mimas: Crunchy on the outside, sub-surface ocean on the inside 8
open CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider 28
open Japan's second-ranked mobile telco to buy convenience store chain from Mitsubishi 5
By albaleo
open Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up 255