This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins Scientists have discovered that the tiny insects commonly known as sharpshooters use superpropulsion to ensure they can efficiently eject the huge volumes of urine they produce…
Lees meerFor one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems There are a lot of technical challenges humanity will have to tackle as we prepare a long-term presence on and around the Moon, and the European Space Agency just reminded us of one m…
Lees meerCrew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home NASA and Space-X scrubbed this morning's launch of the Crew-6 mission to the ISS due to a ground systems issue that made it impossible to …
Lees meerCrew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in space will have to wait that much longer to come home NASA and Space-X scrubbed this morning's launch of the Crew-6 mission to the ISS due to a ground systems issue that made it impossible to …
Lees meerBeijing has filed the paperwork for its LEO constellation, but SpaceX is already there Chinese defence boffins have suggested aggressive countermeasures against SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service.…
Lees meerNASA is used to dealing with extra guests: just sleep on the ceiling With SpaceX's Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station set to lift off Monday, and three astronauts trapped up there by a malfunctioning Soyuz capsule, it's about to get p…
Lees meerOr maybe it's just resting and pining for the fjords Pic China National Space Administration's Zhurong rover remains uncertain as the latest images captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released on Tuesday show the vehicle hasn't moved in …
Lees meerGalaxies got big much sooner than expected, new observations Formed between 500 and 700 million years after the Big Bang, objects at the extreme limits of human observation have showed up on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), designed to uncover…
Lees meerAs good time as any for European Space Agency to announce a 2030 asteoroid-spotting mission A meteorite measuring two-feet-wide hurtled towards Earth at 27,000 miles per hour with an energy equivalent to eight tons of TNT and exploded into pieces ov…
Lees meerLeaving another Russian craft in orbit for months ... what could go wrong? Crew trapped on the ISS due to a leaky Soyuz capsule ought to settle in for a longer than planned stay: Russian space agency Roscosmos announced today that the trio won't be …
Lees meerStudy in Chile desert finds NASA Mars mission instruments unlikely to detect signs of life in Earth's most arid regions A study in Chile's Atacama Desert has found that instruments taken to Mars on NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance missions might no…
Lees meerDroughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably In the 2004 disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow, the world is subsumed by extreme weather as a violent climate collapse encases the northern hemisphere in ice and slow in a matter of d…
Lees meerLooks like Musketeers jumped the gun, launched mission too early Video SpaceX may be fined $175,000 by America's Federal Aviation Administration for failing to hand over collision risk documents before it flew a group of Starlink satellites into sp…
Lees meerDanuri probe is ready to spend its planned year testing space internet, spotting radiation and/or water South Korea's Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, Danuri, which launched in August 2022, has sent back its first images of Earth's sole natural satellite, …
Lees meerTrust us tovarishch, we're just going to do a few more checks Russia's space agency will hold off returning three astronauts from the International Space Station as it works with NASA to investigate a coolant leak issue that impacted an uncrewed fre…
Lees meerStill no deal as new Science and Tech dept head claims Britain has 'global-facing alternative' in the wings Among her public first acts since becoming UK science minister, Michelle Donelan has said Britain is prepared to go it alone on scientific re…
Lees meerASCENT propulsion system just didn't work A tiny NASA cubesat, sent to hunt for signs of water ice on the Moon, will not reach lunar orbit after all four thrusters in a miniaturized propulsion system malfunctioned en route.…
Lees meerWe wanted robot butlers and flying Deloreans ... and got internet-from-orbit instead Amazon's plan to launch a series of satellites to offer broadband internet service can move ahead now that the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has endorse…
Lees meerSurely this is how at least one Michael Crichton novel starts Neuralink, the Musk-founded brain implant company that's no stranger to controversy, is in hot water again, this time over allegations it may have illegally transported implants removed f…
Lees meerA rippled rocky ridge suggests the presence of lakes and waves, all at a higher elevation than expected The Mars Curiosity rover has discovered what NASA said is its clearest evidence yet that the red planet used to be anything but dusty and dry - a…
Lees meerStructure appears to be so far out, the Roche limit may need revising A ring system has been spotted around dwarf planet Quaoar at a distance astronomers didn't believe was possible, defying astronomical theories on how these structures form.…
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