This may be time for plan B UK minister for science and research George Freeman has admitted that vital EU funding for research is in limbo while the nation continues to negotiate Brexit sticking points, namely Northern Ireland and fishing rights.…
Lees meerThree months of mirror alignment gets under way The first photons of starlight have travelled through the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and been detected by the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.…
Lees meerBut what of the domestic launchers? The UK government is to spend an extra £1.4bn on space defence on top of the £5bn allocated to upgrade the Skynet satellite communication system.…
Lees meerGood candidate for fly-by, say scientists, and we’ve got 4,000 years to do it Scientists have confirmed the discovery of Earth's second Trojan asteroid leading the planet in its orbit around its nearest star.…
Lees meerReverse this trend of overspending, says watchdog The UK government is being warned that taxpayers will have to make up a multibillion-pound shortfall to decommission nuclear power stations unless a history of overspending is reversed.…
Lees meerOne streaked across 750km of sky, the other set a duration record The World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations' weather watching agency, has certified two new world records for lightning.…
Lees meerDeep Space Network scope tilts to find its targets, or to dispose of the effects of recent rain Video The venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft is currently more than 19 billion kilometres from Earth, travels at 15 kilometres per second and talks to NASA’…
Lees meer'Incalculable cost' of non-participation in Horizon programme 'continues to rise' The UK's European Scrutiny Committee has published the government's response to concerns over the Brexit divorce bill and the impact on the UK's participation in EU pr…
Lees meerBut work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' researchers say US scientists have succeeded in demonstrating self-heating plasma in a crucial step towards self-sustaining fusion energy.…
Lees meer'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways' Astronomers have picked up something strange we've never seen before in space: bright bursts of low-frequency radio waves emitted three times an hour …
Lees meerPlucky probe due to make closest pass to the Sun in March The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter followed up its whizz past Earth as 2021 drew to a close by passing through the tail of a comet. Again.…
Lees meerAnyone fancy a spherical tokamak in their backyard? Fancy a fusion power plant in your back yard? The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is looking for comments from five locations shortlisted as potential hosts for its Spherical Tokamak for Energy …
Lees meerFunnily enough, that's where we want to be right now, too The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex space observatory built by NASA, has reached its final destination: L2, the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, an orbit located abou…
Lees meerHunt follows £210m government funding in small modular reactor model UK aerospace and engineering giant Rolls-Royce is on the hunt for sites for its much-touted small nuclear reactors, which received a £210m grant from the UK government last year.…
Lees meerLittler circuits executing on smaller hardware and tolerating 'a lot more noise' IBM says it has found a way to solve problems using fewer qubits than before, effectively doubling the capability of a quantum system by combining both quantum and clas…
Lees meerAs it destroys so it creates US scientists have discovered that black holes can create as well as destroy, as the observed hot gas emitted from such a void in a dwarf galaxy could have contributed to the birth of stars.…
Lees meerFusion energy projects nearing 40th anniversary A milestone was reached this week by the Joint European Torus (JET): the 100,000th pulse of the fusion energy experiment.…
Lees meerTo be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space NASA has put its orbiting Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into safe mode due to a suspected faulty reaction wheel, the first time this type of failure has occurred in its 17 years of operation.…
Lees meerAnnoying, maybe – but totally ruining science, no SpaceX’s Starlink satellites appear in about a fifth of all images snapped by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope in California, which is used by ast…
Lees meerRover heats up samples, sniffs carbon signature associated with biological processes on Earth NASA's Curiosity rover has collected samples of rock from the surface of Mars that are rich in a type of carbon associated with biological processes on Ear…
Lees meerStill borked, 1C and 1D are waiting in the wings ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher has addressed the issue of the space agency's borked Copernicus Sentinel-1B spacecraft in his first annual press conference.…
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