Titan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request The future of NASA's Dragonfly trip to Saturn's moon Titan is looking uncertain after the agency gave the go-ahead for work to proceed on the final design and fabrication but kicked f…
Lees meerAll customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight Okta has admitted that the number of customers affected by its October customer support system data breach is far greater than previously thought.…
Lees meerForget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about Engineer and astro-futurist Chris Lewicki wrote an essay this week - that would not be out of place in our Who, Me? archives - about a testing mistake that nearly t…
Lees meer'We looked very hard for a smoking gun linking technology and well-being and we didn't find it' Increased use of the internet has not had a notably negative effect on mental health, according to a study combining data from millions of people across …
Lees meerThe legacy lives on, but best not mention that landing, eh? This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Spacelab module aboard astronaut John Young's final Space Shuttle mission.…
Lees meerFunding follows FDA approval for human trial Elon Musk's Neuralink has secured an additional $43 million in venture capital to help develop its digital interface to the human brain.…
Lees meerStill not reusable, but at least it's getting closer to long-delayed launch The Ariane 6 launcher has successfully conducted a hot fire test –, an important achievement for the Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA).…
Lees meerStill not reusable, but at least it's getting closer to long-delayed launch The Ariane 6 launcher has successfully conducted a hot fire test –, an important achievement for the Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA).…
Lees meerWith Ingenuity still on the Red Planet, engineers have the best of both worlds NASA is planning more ambitious flights for the Mars Ingenuity helicopter as engineers work on its follow-up back on Earth.…
Lees meerEyeing an August 2024 launch, if spacecraft is ready for its first mission Blue Origin is expected to launch two small Martian satellites as the first-ever interplanetary payload aboard its upcoming New Glenn rocket, NASA confirmed this week.…
Lees meerStudy finds galactic cosmic radiation can damage below-the-belt tissues, and the problem may not go away Male astronauts who spend prolonged periods in space may suffer permanent erectile dysfunction, new research has found.…
Lees meerThere ain't no party like a Pu-238 party NASA has celebrated a shipment of half a kilo of plutonium oxide by the US Department of Energy, the largest since US production of plutonium-238 was restarted just over a decade ago.…
Lees meerThere ain't no party like a Pu-238 party NASA has celebrated a shipment of half a kilo of plutonium oxide by the US Department of Energy, the largest since US production of plutonium-238 was restarted just over a decade ago.…
Lees meerReady to launch not the same as licensed to launch SpaceX supremo Elon Musk expects the next Starship to be ready to launch in three to four weeks following the monster rocket's latest failure.…
Lees meerWhat a coincidence! The South is just about to lauch one, too. And it probably won't be junk like the hermit kingdom's recent efforts North Korea has notified Japan that its third attempt to launch a satellite will take place between November 22 and…
Lees meerLab rats absorb widget after getting their dose Scientists say they've developed an implantable drug-delivery widget that harmlessly dissolves over time in the body, can be wirelessly charged, and has proven its efficacy in lab rats.…
Lees meerTest, progress, or mishap – take your pick SpaceX judged the second launch of its Starship a success after the craft's two launch stages separated and one made it into space, but neither finished their mission.…
Lees meerWe come in peace, or rather, pieces Last year, not one but two craters unexpectedly appeared on the Moon, leaving us all to wonder: what could have caused that?…
Lees meerTransmitting data from deep space, with a frickin' laser beam NASA has fired up its Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) aboard the agency's Psyche spacecraft and received test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away.…
Lees meerNow that's the kind of current affairs we're into The Biden administration is splurging $3.5 billion to recharge the American battery industry and increase its manufacturing output, with the Department of Energy handing out the cash.…
Lees meerJet-setting to a greener future? Japan Airlines is looking into the feasibility of using hydrogen-electric engines to power aircraft in future, and is working with three engineering outfits to study issues such as safety and maintainability.…
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