Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why A group of employees at SpaceX wrote an open letter to COO and president Gwynne Shotwell denouncing owner Elon Musk's public behavior and calling for the rocket company to "swiftly and explicitly s…
Lees meerSecond Nuri rocket stalls with problem similar to those that caused first mission to mostly fail South Korea's ambition to launch a space industry on the back of a locally developed rocket have stalled, after a glitch saw the countdown halted for it…
Lees meerWill play nicely in Earth orbit A letter has been filed with America's communications watchdog confirming that SpaceX and OneWeb, which are building mega-constellations of broadband satellites, are content to play nicely.…
Lees meerBe a good neighbor to folks and the environment, and we'll think that permit over SpaceX is one step closer to securing a permit to launch not just its first rocket from Boca Chica, Texas but its reusable super-heavy lifter at that.…
Lees meerOrbital success counter stuck at 2 as upper stage of rocket shuts down early and CubeSats lost The first of NASA's TROPICS constellation launches came to an unscheduled end over the weekend as the Astra launch vehicle it was riding failed to deliver…
Lees meerThe truth is out there, and the space agency intends to find it – scientifically Over recent years, Uncle Sam has loosened its tight-lipped if not dismissive stance on UFOs, or "unidentified aerial phenomena", lest anyone think we're talking about a…
Lees meerImpact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried The James Webb Space Telescope has barely had a chance to get to work, and it's already taken a micrometeoroid to its sensitive primary mirror.…
Lees meerWe ask again: Has science gone too far? Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania say they've developed a photonic deep neural network processor capable of analyzing billions of images every second with high accuracy using the power of light.…
Lees meerThey're the stuff of life, so the fact they're floating around out there is very exciting Dust that Japan's Hayabusa2 probe returned to Earth from asteroid Ryugu reportedly contain 20 amino acids, according to Japanese media.…
Lees meerCarbon offsets don't make you green when your datacenters are still rolling coal Comment It's hard to suppress an eyeroll when the world's largest consumers of datacenter resources talk about sustainability. Putting the planet ahead of profits is o…
Lees meerJust make sure to drink it AFTER the rocket has successfully launched Who, Me? Welcome back to Who, Me?, where this week a reader tells us how they used brute force and whiskey to solve a pyrotechnic problem.…
Lees meerAt least one manufacturer would like to disagree with study's conclusions Some mini nuclear reactors that are supposed to usher in an era of cheaper and safer nuclear power generate up to 35 times more waste to produce the same amount of power as a …
Lees meerIn Gaussian boson sampling at least, quantum supremecy is here Researchers in Canada have conducted a quantum computing experiment that they claim completes a calculation in just a fraction of a second that would take a conventional computer 9,000 y…
Lees meerRocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code Researchers at The Asteroid Institute have developed a way to locate previously unknown asteroids in astronomical data, and all it took was a massive amount of cloud computing power to do it.…
Lees meerBut the potentially abundant, if distant, source of sustainable energy could offer hope Nuclear fusion will not provide an answer to the medium-term "sacrifice" the world population will have to endure to get to net-zero carbon emission by 2050 — th…
Lees meerIngenuity footage sent back to Earth via Perseverance, despite looming battery problem Video On Friday NASA released footage of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying further and faster than ever before.…
Lees meerTeleportation of quantum information key to future secure data transfer Researchers in the Netherlands have shown they can transmit quantum information via an intermediary node, a feature necessary to make the so-called quantum internet possible.…
Lees meerSo small, you can't feel it crawl Video Robot boffins have revealed they've created a half-millimeter wide remote-controlled walking robot that resembles a crab, and hope it will one day perform tasks in tiny crevices.…
Lees meerA couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station Two and a half years after its first disastrous launch, Boeing has once again fired its CST-100 Starliner capsule at the International Spa…
Lees meerEngineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency NASA engineers are investigating anomalous telemetry data produced by venerable space probe Voyager 1.…
Lees meerThe little lander that couldn't (any longer) The Martian InSight lander will no longer be able to function within months as dust continues to pile up on its solar panels, starving it of energy, NASA reported on Tuesday.…
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