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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 | 20

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 | 67

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 | 31

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

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

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 | 59

Not so fast, SpaceX: $3bn NASA Moon landing contract blocked by rivals' gripes

Blue Origin, Dynetics cry foul

04 May 02:38 | 36

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

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

Bug of the week

How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price

Now that's a Buffett overflow error

Google will make you use two-step verification to login

World Password Day returns to remind us how much passwords suck

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh-

Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss

'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' states poorly redacted report

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence

No lessons learned from (literally) decades of media format wars

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'

Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here's a list of those changes

Plus: NCSC warns of how hostile powers may exploit smart city infrastructure

Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away

Software giant vows data processing of EU cloud services to stay in EU, which means that currently...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts

As the constellation stands anyway

09 Apr 18:37 | 113

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

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 | 99

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