All that Lego has a purpose: Researchers find that spatial memory improves kids' mathematical powers
Textbooks aren't everything
21 May 2021 | 27
Science
When humanity perishes in nuclear fire, the University of Essex's radiation-resistant robots will inherit the Earth
Never mind the Clacton-on-Sea pier. They've got £600k to build power plant butlers
21 May 2021 | 11
ESA signs off on contracts for lunar data relay and navigation
Surrey Satellite and Airbus to ponder a fleet of Moonlight satellites
21 May 2021 | 16
Virgin Galactic declares May day for next test space flight
Mothership checks out, so VSS Unity will fly again
20 May 2021 | 13
Blue Origin sets its price: $1.4m minimum for trip into space
Comment Expensive free fall experience plus 'astronaut' bragging rights
20 May 2021 | 35
Pics or it didn't happen: First images from China's Mars rover suggest nothing has gone Zhurong just yet
Probe's cams show red planet's surface while clips capture descent
19 May 2021 | 45
Space is hard: Rocket Lab's 20th Electron launch fails
Firm working with FAA to 'investigate the anomaly' after second stage sputters
17 May 2021 | 19
China says its first Mars rover Zhurong has landed on the Red Planet
Updated 'An important step in our country’s interplanetary exploration journey' – state media
14 May 2021 | 88
NASA pops old-school worm logo onto Orion spacecraft
Will be visible from the launchpad ... when it finally gets there
14 May 2021 | 39
An actress, an internet billionaire, and Tom Cruise walk into a space station ... not necessarily at the same time
It's Space Race 2 for Russia and America
14 May 2021 | 30
James Webb Space Telescope runs one last dress rehearsal for its massive golden mirrors before heading to launchpad
A few final tests then it's bags packed for French Guiana – and about time too
13 May 2021 | 39
Another week, another issue: Virgin Galactic mulls test flight restart as VSS Unity fixed – but VMS Eve might be borked
Company continues to make losses without troubling space
12 May 2021 | 29
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 2021 | 72
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 2021 | 7
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 2021 | 29
Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA
Long March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives
10 May 2021 | 71
You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world
Video NASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick
08 May 2021 | 58
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 2021 | 76
IBM says it's built the world's first 2nm semiconductor chips
Coming to a computer near you ... this decade ... maybe
06 May 2021 | 33
The Starship has landed. Latest SpaceX test comes back to Earth without igniting fireballs
Video There was just a little fire. But not enough to worry anybody
06 May 2021 | 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 61
Not so fast, SpaceX: $3bn NASA Moon landing contract blocked by rivals' gripes
Blue Origin, Dynetics cry foul
04 May 2021 | 38
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 2021 | 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 56
China launches first module of new, crewed, Tiangong-3 space station
Expected to host three astronauts for a decade, starting in 2022
29 Apr 2021 | 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 2021 | 30
Michael Collins, once the world's 'loneliest man,' is dead. If that name means little or nothing to you, read this
Obit Buzz Aldrin sole remaining survivor of Apollo 11 Moon landing
28 Apr 2021 | 73
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 2021 | 14
El Reg checks in with Rocket Lab's Peter Beck to see how that hat tastes amid reusable rockets and swelling payloads
Interview 'Everything in this industry always goes to schedule and to plan,' he says
26 Apr 2021 | 14
NASA’s getting really good at this flying a helicopter on Mars thing
VIDEO Ingenuity's third flight goes further, faster, as Perseverance snaps pics 'n' vid of 'copter zipping past
26 Apr 2021 | 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 68
