A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool Scientists at Johns Hopkins and Samsung have developed a nano-engineered thermoelectric material that is twice as efficient at material-level cooling as existing alternatives, paving the way for …
Lees meerMethane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise The Bezos-backed MethaneSAT satellite has been declared "likely not recoverable" after losing contact with controllers just over a week ago.…
Lees meerNonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter The medical research nonprofit vying to buy 23andMe is informing existing customers that it plans to complete the deal on July 8.…
Lees meerNASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum Lurking in the text contained within the One Big Beautiful Bill, which was passed by the US Senate yesterday, is an $85 million allocation for shifting …
Lees meerMysterious ‘Alloy 30’ gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes NASA is exploring the properties of a metal alloy that shrinks as it is heated, as boffins in its Astrophysics Division think it may be neede…
Lees meerMysterious ‘Alloy 30’ gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes NASA is exploring the properties of a metal alloy that shrinks as it is heated, as boffins in its Astrophysics Division think it may be neede…
Lees meerStricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment NASA has extended recovery efforts for its stricken Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to mid-July, but is warning that if the probe remains silent, the mission could end.…
Lees meerAmerica recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats.…
Lees meerAmerica recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats.…
Lees meerSomeday, my prince will come Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of course, the Massachusetts-based startup can actually get the miniaturized sun to make more power th…
Lees meerNASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test video Old Space has shown itself to be just as adept at explosive malfunctions as New Space, with Northrop Grumman encountering an anomaly during a static fire test of an updated solid rocket boost…
Lees meerChipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems Chinese chip designer Loongson last week announced silicon it claims is the equal of western semiconductors from 2021.…
Lees meerNo replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Satellite data used for hurricane forecasting is to be abruptly cut off from the end of June due to "recent service changes."…
Lees meerOr so hear members of Parliament in the UK UK lawmakers have learned there is no international protocol for making decisions over how to respond to a prospective life-threatening asteroid strike on Earth.…
Lees meerCosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor NASA's NICER X-ray telescope is pausing operations just weeks after the US space agency boasted that a January repair and reconfiguration had improved its daytime measurements.…
Lees meerAudit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks NASA is struggling to meet all the goals of its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, the effort that aims to prevent humanity being wiped…
Lees meerFifth and final Crew Dragon ready for first flight to the ISS tomorrow NASA has a launch date for Axiom Mission 4. The much-delayed private astronaut expedition is now targeting for liftoff on Wednesday, June 25.…
Lees meerULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites The second batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites has launched, but Team Bezos has a long way to go to match the coverage of Elon Musk's Starlink.…
Lees meer20TB of galactic shots a day, backed by Microsofties High on a Chilean mountain the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is, at last, photographing the galaxy and the first shots have found 2,104 new asteroids in the Solar System in its initial ten hours of op…
Lees meerStartup has already shown how to make drugs in space UPDATED America's aviation regulator has issued its first license for unmanned spacecraft to reenter the Earth's atmosphere to Varda, a startup that's trying to build a space-based manufacturing …
Lees meerVeteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works Astronomers have found a filament of hot gas, ten times as massive as our galaxy, that they reckon could explain where at least some of the universe's "mis…
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