Science
Origami... in spaaaaace: Inflatable folded objects discovery brings new meaning to blowing up buildings
Space-saving structures could work well in 'space missions'
22 Apr 14:30 | 16
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Science
Sucks to be you, any aliens living anywhere near Proxima Centauri's record-smashing solar flare
Our stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings
22 Apr 10:32 | 51
Science
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world
Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed
22 Apr 01:01 | 60
Science
China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft
Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress
21 Apr 05:58 | 94
Video
Watch this: Ingenuity – Earth's first aircraft to fly on another planet – take off on Mars
History in the making for the tiny open-source-powered whizzing chopper
20 Apr 07:39 | 50
Science
On a dusty red planet almost 290 million km away... NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies
NASA’s JPL lab speaks to The Reg
19 Apr 11:59 | 54
Science
Elon Musk's SpaceX bags $3bn NASA contract to, fingers crossed, land first woman on the Moon
And the 13th guy
16 Apr 22:28 | 54
Science
Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)
Unless by aliens you mean Russians
16 Apr 21:41 | 94
Science
Fridges... in... Spaaaaaaace: Engineers book ride on the Vomit Comet to test astro-refrigerator
It's floaty floaty vom time as boffins plan prototype cooler spin on modded 727
16 Apr 16:33 | 24
Science
We're on our way already: Astroboffins find 5 potentially habitable Tatooine-like systems from Kepler 'scope
Perhaps gigantic puffy exoplanets aren't as hostile to life as previously thought
16 Apr 06:04 | 24
Video
Blue Origin sends Mannequin Skywalker aloft again, testing out comfier capsule for future space tourists
One day you too can experience a few minutes of free fall with great visuals... if you can afford it
15 Apr 02:31 | 15
Science
Ice, ice maybe? Astrobotic will ride SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to the Moon in 2023 and drop off NASA's water-hunting rover
Firm's Griffin lander to do the honours
14 Apr 20:34 | 3
Science
NASA writes software update for Ingenuity helicopter to enable first Mars flight
Won’t say when flight tests will resume, because uploads and testing are hard when your machine is 15 light minutes away
13 Apr 04:59 | 49
Science
It is 60 years since the first cosmonaut reached orbit and 40 years since the Shuttle first left the launchpad
Double anniversary means doubles all round, are we right?
12 Apr 20:03 | 14
Science
Satellite collision anticipated by EU space agency fails to materialize... for now at least
Internet rubberneckers and crisis-starved media left to ponder non-event
10 Apr 11:01 | 41
Science
SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts
As the constellation stands anyway
09 Apr 18:37 | 110
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NASA's Mars helicopter spins up its blades ahead of hoped-for 12 April hover
Things to look forward to on Monday morn: Our Who, Me? column and 1st flight of Ingenuity
09 Apr 17:29 | 63
Science
Feature bloat: Psychology boffins find people tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away
Duplo exercise provides vital insight into flawed human heuristic
09 Apr 08:08 | 98
Science
What's this about a muon experiment potentially upending Standard Model of physics? We speak to one of the scientists involved
'It’s an exciting prospect, but too early to say so definitively' professor tells us
08 Apr 22:34 | 70
Science
Software in space race heats up: Microsoft eyes satellite image processing with Thales Alenia Space's digital image analyst
DeeperVision software coming to Azure Marketplace
07 Apr 18:11 | 4
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University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired
'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman
Science
China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft
Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress
Update
Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure
Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference
Science
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world
Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed
Devops
Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'
CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack
Security
UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch
IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream
Updated
Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file
More a declaration of war than turning the tables
Offbeat
Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity
The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set
Review
But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Bender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?
He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better
Software
Someone has to pay to keep the lights so data-viz outfit Grafana switches licence regime to AGPLv3
AWS dodges the finger of blame as another open-sourcer tightens things up
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Science
We finally get to spot a burnt-out comet and what is it covered in? Talcum powder
We might just be witnessing a final state of these incredible space rocks
07 Apr 07:26 | 28
Science
DARPA adds RISC-V to its Toolbox: Defense researchers can get special access to SiFive chip designs
Labs offered tech by Arm as well as its upstart rival and others
07 Apr 01:49 | 5
Science
CERN boffins zap antimatter with ultraviolet lasers in the hope of revealing the secret symmetry of the universe
If you can't measure it, you can't research it
06 Apr 09:45 | 73
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Scientists stumped by strange X-rays from Uranus
UCL astronomer tells us: 'We were surprised by our discovery'
02 Apr 06:01 | 36
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Sierra Nevada Corporation resurrects plans for crewed Dream Chaser spaceplane
Updates on its blow-up space station while Bigelow threatens to burst NASA's bubble
01 Apr 12:47 | 10
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'Imagine' if Virgin Galactic actually did sub-orbital tourism: Firm unveils new chrome job on SpaceShip III
That schedule, however, is looking a lot less shiny
31 Mar 15:04 | 47
Science
Tools down: Singapore’s training bots and drones to digitize construction work
Research agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce
30 Mar 23:45 | 3
Science
Another successful flight for SpaceX's Starship apart from the landing-in-one-piece thing
Explosions in the mist
30 Mar 17:25 | 103
Analysis
What happens when back-flipping futuristic robot technology meets capitalism? Yeah, it’s warehouse work
Boston Dynamics: From Terminator to Amazon worker replacement
30 Mar 06:31 | 73
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Satellites, space debris may have already brightened night skies 10% globally – and it's going to get worse
Goodbye darkness, my old friend
29 Mar 22:42 | 61
Science
Distorted light from ancient explosion when the Universe was 3 billion years old helps point astroboffins to intermediate black hole
Gamma-ray burst technique could figure out how commonplace these tricksy customers are
29 Mar 17:09 | 14
Science
Sadly, the catastrophic impact with Apophis asteroid isn't going to happen in 2068
Astroboffins are so confident, this once dangerous near-Earth object has now been struck off official risk lists
28 Mar 11:05 | 66
Science
ESA gives UK space an £8.5m Boost: Rocketeers eye a 2022 launch
Lawmakers still need to sign off on launch from UK soil, though
25 Mar 11:45 | 11
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NASA sets the date for first helicopter flight on another planet – and the craft will carry a piece of history
Fabric from Wright brothers' aircraft makes it to Mars
25 Mar 07:23 | 43
Pic + video
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A halo of light polarized by a gigantic black hole's magnetic field...
Most intimate snap yet of M87's supermassive abyss
25 Mar 02:24 | 38
Video
Your hardware is end-of-life... and it's in space. Worry not, Anglo-Japanese sat to test new orbital cleanup method
Magnetic tech could be used to deorbit debris
23 Mar 08:32 | 42
Science
Founders of medical science upstart uBiome once likened to Theranos now indicted for, you guessed it, fraud
Failed firm was full of it, Feds say
22 Mar 23:53 | 12
Science
Boffins get first measurements of Jupiter's stratospheric storms that show 'unique beast' dwarfing Earth's issues
Even though its Great Red Spot appears to be shrinking, the storm behind it will probably live on
20 Mar 10:10 | 12
Science
Being asked to rate fake news may help stop social media users sharing it, study finds
Could slow the spread of misinformation without needing draconian law
19 Mar 12:30 | 42
