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Boeing and Rocket Lab hope for the best as both return to launchpad following failures
Space is hard
28 Jul 18:13 |
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Hubble in another first: Water vapor spotted in atmosphere of Jupiter’s Ganymede
We speak to the scientists involved
27 Jul 06:20 | 10
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Japan plans remote-controlled robotic space tourism to the ISS and beyond
'Avatars' that roam around space station, or do work with high performance hands, to be controllable from the ground
27 Jul 05:19 | 6
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Bezos offers to knock $2bn off his bill to NASA to stay in the running for Moon contract
It's not a bribe when it's a payment waiver
26 Jul 23:55 | 28
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Russia's Pirs ISS module scheduled to fall away, much like Moscow's interest in the space station
Troubled Nauka might actually make it after four orbit corrections – since we left work Friday
26 Jul 07:54 | 34
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We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. An exoplanet building its own moons
400 light-years away, satellites are forming
23 Jul 13:03 | 33
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Survey of astronomers and geophysicists shines a light on 'bleak' systemic bullying
'We need to hold each other to account when we're talking through these issues'
22 Jul 20:04 | 57
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Russia's ISS Multipurpose Laboratory Module launches after years sitting on a shelf, immediately runs into issues
Nauka? More like 'Borka!' Geddit?
22 Jul 16:14 | 43
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Brain-computer interface researchers warn of a 'bleak' cyberpunk future – unless we tread carefully
Commercial exploitation of a person's inner thoughts 'particularly worrisome'
22 Jul 07:31 | 44
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NASA warns Mars: We're about to laser your rocks and start stealing them
Perseverance prepares to snaffle first sample for eventual retrieval
22 Jul 06:00 | 21
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Dog eats UK government's Hydrogen Strategy homework just as summer recess arrives
Ah shucks, industry and investors will have to wait a little bit longer
21 Jul 14:30 | 39
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Pipe down, Jeff. You've only gone where Gus Grissom went before, 60 years ago today
Remembering the second American in space
21 Jul 13:00 | 28
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Mountains on neutron stars are not even a millimetre tall due to extreme gravity
According to simulations, anyway
21 Jul 07:27 | 45
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Good news: Jeff Bezos went to space. Bad news: He's back
Baldly going where beardy has gone before, except a bit higher
20 Jul 15:03 | 149
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Not only is Hubble back online after outage, it's already taking photos of the cosmos
After hundreds of hours of work, engineers called out of retirement for help
20 Jul 06:24 | 52
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NASA fixes Hubble Space Telescope using backup power supply unit, payload computer
Hardware gremlins plagued orbiting observatory for over a month
16 Jul 21:02 | 111
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Buyer of $28m Blue Origin space ticket has a scheduling conflict – so this teen will go instead
Bezos and his bro on rocket jaunt
16 Jul 06:27 | 54
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Iffy voltage: The plague of PC builders and Hubble space telescope controllers alike
Buckle up, the great switchover starts today
15 Jul 21:23 | 20
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United, Mesa airlines order 200 electric 19-seater planes for short-hop flights
Sorry, how much do you charge?!
15 Jul 11:15 | 139
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Sweat-sipping wearable aims to charge electronics without couch potatoes lifting a finger
What's wrong with plugging it in?
14 Jul 20:02 | 12
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Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations
Energy efficiency rules appear to be limiting the availability of gaming rigs
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I've got a broken combine harvester – but the manufacturer won't give me the software key
Right-to-repair activists welcome policy wins with caution
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Apple patches zero-day vulnerability in iOS, iPadOS, macOS under active attack
Characteristically mum about details
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SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube
Has since been recovered, and Scaleway now ships disks with GPS trackers
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You, too, can be a Windows domain controller and do whatever you like, with this one weird WONTFIX trick
Microsoft offers some mitigations for thwarting PetitPotam attacks
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Scam-baiting YouTube channel Tech Support Scams taken offline by tech support scam
'It was pretty convincing until the very end,' says host Jim Browning
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Compsci student walks off with $50,000 after bug bounty report blows gaping hole in Shopify software repos
First-timer wins maximum payout through HackerOne programme
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'Login infrastructure issue' blamed as sustained Xero outage threatens payrolls
Accountancy software goes TITSUP* as biz users can't invoice customers nor see who's paid their bills
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North Wales Police seek IT services partners in deals worth up to £41.6m
Force still stinging after CGI fiasco ended up costing more than hoped for
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Misconfigured Azure Blob at Raven Hengelsport exposed records of 246,000 anglers – and took months to tackle, claim infosec researchers
18GB of Dutch fishing supplier's data left in unsecured server
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Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware
Procedure on stricken space telescope may be attempted later this week
14 Jul 12:45 | 71
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Here boy! Making the Sample Fetch Rover that'll collect soil from the Red Planet
El Reg grabs a moment in time with ExoMars trundlebot's chief engineer
14 Jul 10:45 | 13
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Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death
Monitoring a person's 'iAge' may provide a means to prolong life, say scientists
13 Jul 21:15 | 112
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Euro space boffins hatch comms satellite hijack plan to save Earth from extinction
Liv Tyler-friendly Armageddon-avoidance project won't want to miss a thing with repurposed orbiters
13 Jul 16:15 | 55
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NASA signs $1bn deal with Northrop Grumman to build studio apartment in lunar orbit with room for 3 vehicles
HALO to form the crew habitat module of the Gateway outpost
12 Jul 13:02 | 32
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Richard Branson uses two planes to make 170km round trip
Went into space and made it home in time for lunch
12 Jul 05:10 | 199
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Giant predatory ancient insects pioneered mobile comms 310,000,000 years ago
Late Carboniferous period critters used wings to reflect light and make sound
09 Jul 20:33 | 25
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Wanna feel old? It is 10 years since the Space Shuttle left the launchpad for the last time
In celebration of STS-135 and the final launch of Atlantis
09 Jul 17:02 | 54
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11-year-old graduate announces plans to achieve immortality by 'replacing body parts with mechanical parts'
Walking sci-fi horror movie plot wants to look inside boffin brains to find way to help ailing grandparents
08 Jul 22:41 | 58
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The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century
Europeans still hoping for Halloween lift-off
08 Jul 03:32 | 34
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NASA readies commands to switch on Hubble's back-up hardware
Observatory might be able to spot distant stars, but it can't hear a bunch of engineers holding their breath
07 Jul 17:55 | 18
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Australian geoboffins have zoomed in and enhanced CSI-style soil analysis: Bung it in a machine, find the crime scene
New approach could lead to a system for geolocating dirt samples
07 Jul 10:47 | 6
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Kepler spots four rogue Earth-mass exoplanets floating in space, unbound to any star
Data from NASA's 'scope may be years old now though discoveries keep on coming
07 Jul 06:41 | 46
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Boffins decide what world really needs is indestructible robot cockroaches
It's fine: they'll just be used for searching disaster sites, checking structures, spying on people
06 Jul 16:01 | 30
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Taikonauts complete seven-hour spacewalk, the first for China since 2008
Crew do some DIY, move a camera, you know, the usual … but in zero gravity
05 Jul 16:01 | 32
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Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race
The flight of the bearded one means Shepard will be second. Again
02 Jul 11:29 | 88
