700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles. More than a decade after construction began, China has commenced operation of what it claims is the world’s most sensitive neutrino detector ... .
'They have to give us magnets'. world war fee The Chinese lockdown on rare-earth minerals has drawn the ire of President Trump, who is threatening crushing tariffs if the Middle Kingdom doesn't cough up more rare earths. .
Explosions all expected and on schedule this time. SpaceX has finally managed a test flight of Starship without anything creating an impromptu firework display ... .
We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!. Elon Musk's monster rocket, Starship, remains firmly on the launchpad after two scrubs in a row, first due to an oxygen leak and then some clouds ... .
Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative. The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission ... .
Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean. Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, once had an environment in which microbes might have thrived ... .
Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings. It's been 50 years since NASA sent Viking 1 on a mission to Mars... .
More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could be home to a molten salt reactor once again if Google-backed Kairos Power has its way. .
Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth. NASA has begun assembling the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send humans on a lunar landing mission in 2027 ... .