Troubled space capsule cost $195 million this quarter, bringing total losses on it since 2020 to $883m The Starliner losses just keep adding up for Boeing, whose troubled crew capsule spacecraft is closing in on $900 million in cumulative losses for…
Lees meerGround crew heightened orbit and carried on like a boss NASA says the International Space Station (ISS) this week transitioned to a higher orbit to dodge debris from a Russian satellite. The agency spotted the junk and calculated it would fly within…
Lees meerRefocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies Mouthpieces for an investment fund co-founded by Bill Gates say their teams have decided to refocus strategy on adapting to climate change.…
Lees meerThat is if they're anything like the radiation-resistant 'Conan the Bacterium' here on Earth Ancient microbes on Mars could survive up to 280 million years if they are resistant to radiation and left buried underneath the ground in frozen, moist con…
Lees meerThank you, Ed Stone – the only person to ever hold the job The Voyager mission's project scientist has retired after 50 years in the job.…
Lees meerTold no by SpaceX, uni eggheads went ahead without sat corp's blessing Researchers rebuffed by SpaceX have taken matters into their own hands and reverse-engineered Starlink's satellite signal for potential use as a GPS alternative. …
Lees meerThe truth is out there and 16 people have been tasked to find it NASA has announced the names of 16 individuals who will be a part of its unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) research group that begins work today.…
Lees meerThe black hole information paradox and quantum error correction codes overlap almost completely It's hard for professor Brian Cox to hide his enthusiasm for black holes, and he didn't really try as he explained to The Register how progress in unders…
Lees meerAnyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we're living in? Physicists in America have confirmed a strange measurement that was first discovered by scientists probing the internal structure of protons two decades ago. …
Lees meerOne laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet European scientists claim to have achieved a data transmission speed of 1.8 petabits per second, all with a single laser and an optical chip. …
Lees meerOngoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit Scientists in Canada have developed an electronic device to fit inside a surgical mask which they claim helps monitor the wearer's health and how well the mask is…
Lees meerWeird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf Located 580 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Auriga the Charioteer, there lies an extra fluffy exoplanet with an average density similar to a marshmallow, light enough to float on water. …
Lees meerTime to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists Researchers studying the effects of California's record-breaking 2020 wildfire season have uncovered some unsettling evidence. The fires in that…
Lees meerNASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water' NASA's long-serving Curiosity Mars rover has finally reached an objective it has been ambling toward since landing on the red planet a decade ago: the "…
Lees meerWe speak to the boffins behind the mission about hits, misses, engineering, and that extraordinary near death scrape This week, the European Space Agency's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) spacecraft celebrated the 20th ann…
Lees meerChanges follow astronaut's headgear filling with water during seven-hour star trek Spacewalks outside the International Space Station are set to resume after NASA temporarily paused all such activity to investigate an issue that caused water to accu…
Lees meerTributes paid to Air Force veteran who helped make first US spacewalk possible Jim McDivitt, a US Air Force pilot and NASA veteran, best-known for flying in the pioneering Gemini and Apollo human spaceflight programs that led to the first manned Moo…
Lees meerEven our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity An analysis of Australian sedimentary rock has helped to show the Moon was about 60,000km closer to the Earth 2.46 billion years ago than it is now.…
Lees meerE-Walker is a 'seven degrees-of-freedom fully dexterous end-over-end walking robot' Although large in-space construction projects are the stuff of science fiction, they will have to become science fact as missions grow ever more ambitious. Researche…
Lees meerSpacecraft coming through, outta the way, watch your step, we're heading to Jupiter NASA's Lucy spacecraft has successfully performed its first gravity-assist flyby of Earth, dodging tens of thousands of satellites and bits of debris.…
Lees meerSpace scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided not to rebuild Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, shut down in August 2020 due to damage accrued three yea…
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