Rants & Raves

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

The mission commander’s email inbox failed during the journey to the moon. Have they tried turning the computer off and back on again?

The crew of Artemis II will not descend to the moon, but their capsule will fly over the far side of its surface.

The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen thousands of kilometers away.

As soon as April 1, four people will embark on a journey that will take them farther from the Earth than anyone has ever traveled before.

Entire space programs have been canceled after a failure in the reentry phase. In the final test for Artemis II, astronauts will travel at 32 times the speed of sound as they return from the moon.

The astronauts will arrive about 10,300 kilometers beyond our satellite, breaking all previous records for distance from Earth. But how was their route chosen?

The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting the Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds.

That’s good news, since the forecast is sunshine for the next 5 billion years.

A panel of WIRED experts dissected the defense tech industry’s impact on modern warfare.

You can grab a nice discount on the Nothing CMF Watch 3 Pro for a limited time.

Last year, as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monolog, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged support, according to emails obtained by WIRED.