Science
43 years and 14 billion miles later, Voyager 1 still crunching data to reveal secrets of the interstellar medium
Gazing into the void for at least a few more years yet
11 May 10:03 | 40
Science
Science
NASA's first asteroid sample on its way to Earth after OSIRIS-REx boosts for home
Boffins will have to wait until September 2023 to get their hands on the goodies
10 May 21:52 | 5
Science
NASA ups price of a private stay aboard the ISS to reflect true expense of keeping tourists alive in space
Should cover the cost of the air leaking out of the Russian segment
10 May 15:40 | 27
Science
Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA
Long March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives
10 May 03:58 | 65
Video
You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world
NASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick
08 May 06:39 | 58
Science
China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing
Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years
07 May 07:01 | 76
Science
IBM says it's built the world's first 2nm semiconductor chips
Coming to a computer near you ... this decade ... maybe
06 May 23:04 | 32
Video
The Starship has landed. Latest SpaceX test comes back to Earth without igniting fireballs
There was just a little fire. But not enough to worry anybody
06 May 06:15 | 56
Science
If you're the 1% and have 10 mins to spare this July, bid for a place on first Blue Origin space tourism launch
For everyone else, get back to work and ordering those Amazon Prime deals
06 May 03:48 | 21
Science
Spent Chinese rocket stage set to make an uncontrolled return to Earth
Friends don't drop rocket remnants on friends, m'kay?
04 May 15:53 | 61
Science
Not so fast, SpaceX: $3bn NASA Moon landing contract blocked by rivals' gripes
Blue Origin, Dynetics cry foul
04 May 02:38 | 36
Science
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter cleared for further, farther, flying after landing on 117-second fourth flight
Vehicle to enter 'operations demonstration phase'. Meanwhile SpaceX’s first crew return mission also sticks the landing
03 May 11:16 | 34
Science
Former Senator and one-time astronaut Bill Nelson named as NASA's new administrator
Confirmation happened at pace. Shame the same can't be said for Artemis
30 Apr 12:50 | 15
Science
Known software issue grounds Ingenuity Mars copter as it attempted fourth flight
NASA chose not to re-install OS and live with a 15 percent failure rate
30 Apr 08:15 | 55
Science
China launches first module of new, crewed, Tiangong-3 space station
Expected to host three astronauts for a decade, starting in 2022
29 Apr 07:26 | 31
Science
Good: Water vapor signal detected for first time on distant planet. Bad: Er, we'll let one of the boffins explain
Hey, look, it's the galaxy's Florida
29 Apr 06:02 | 30
Obit
Michael Collins, once the world's 'loneliest man,' is dead. If that name means little or nothing to you, read this
Buzz Aldrin sole remaining survivor of Apollo 11 Moon landing
28 Apr 21:41 | 72
Science
Boffins stumble upon method to make silicon control lasers
Quantum experiment may clear the way for viable silicon photonics – chips with electronic and photonic interconnects
28 Apr 05:37 | 13
Interview
El Reg checks in with Rocket Lab's Peter Beck to see how that hat tastes amid reusable rockets and swelling payloads
'Everything in this industry always goes to schedule and to plan,' he says
26 Apr 08:30 | 14
VIDEO
NASA’s getting really good at this flying a helicopter on Mars thing
Ingenuity's third flight goes further, faster, as Perseverance snaps pics 'n' vid of 'copter zipping past
26 Apr 08:01 | 75
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Security
Indian government says 5G doesn’t cause COVID-19. Also points out India has no 5G networks
But won’t reveal who it wants banned from social media over less obvious disinformation
Software
When software depends on a project thanklessly maintained by a random guy in Nebraska, is open source sustainable?
Much of the OSS world is critically underfunded yet critically important
Updated
US declares emergency after ransomware shuts oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day
Oil transport by road allowed after Colonial Pipeline goes down, operator says recovery is under way but offers no recovery date
On-Prem
‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support
Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty
Science
43 years and 14 billion miles later, Voyager 1 still crunching data to reveal secrets of the interstellar medium
Gazing into the void for at least a few more years yet
Who, Me?
Accidentally wiped an app's directory? Hey, just play the 'unscheduled maintenance' card. Now you're a hero
It soothed this raging roomful of wannabe lawyers anyway
Updated
Namecheap hosted 25%+ of fake UK govt phishing sites last year – NCSC report
Also we fixed SS7 use by British telcos. How? Why? Not saying
Science
Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA
Long March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives
Security
Compsci boffin publishes proof-of-concept code for 54-year-old zero-day in Universal Turing Machine
Patch your devi... oh, hang on a sec
Analysis
As another vendor promises 3 years of Android updates, we ask: How long should mobile devices receive support?
Really, three years should be the bare minimum at this point
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Science
SpaceX flings another bunch of humans into orbit in reused capsule atop reused booster
Second jaunt to the International Space Station for Endeavour
23 Apr 12:39 | 25
Science
We admire your MOXIE, Earthlings: Perseverance rover gizmo produces oxygen for first time on Mars
First, COVID vaccinations, now atmosphere generators for an alien world? We're really cooking on gas now
23 Apr 06:26 | 35
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 | 27
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 | 68
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 | 76
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 | 98
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 | 51
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
