Science
Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope
Fly me to the Moon, let me swim among the stars
26 Oct 21:32 | 65
Science
Science
NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop
Collector is leaking regolith, sparking swift stash plan
26 Oct 06:45 | 23
In Brief
ISS air leakage fixed in time for crew handover, thanks to floating teabag
Also: Starlinks soar but GPS stays grounded, NASA names first Virgin Galactic flier
22 Oct 10:55 | 60
Video
We know there are a lot of, er, distractions right now but NASA's got some sweet video of its asteroid rubble raiser
Incredible scoop, read all about it , read all about it
22 Oct 07:48 | 50
Science
FYI: NASA appears to have scooped dirt from an asteroid 200 million miles away and plans to bring it back home
Would be nice if civilization could hold out for 2023 to see its return
21 Oct 01:10 | 62
Science
Everybody's going to the Moon (and Mars): The Reg chats to ESA about 10-year plans and sending Tim back to space
Agency's 'nauts to ride in US commercial crew capsules 'going forward'
20 Oct 08:30 | 12
Science
If you're feeling down, know that we've just buried a heat sensor in an alien planet. If NASA can get through Mars soil, we can get through 2020
US space agency has a mole – and that's a good thing, finally
18 Oct 22:48 | 25
Video
Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure
Lead scientist explains all to El Reg: 'Pressure is the most versatile parameter to create such conditions'
15 Oct 05:35 | 61
Science
Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines
What she in lacks in ethics, she more than makes up for in persistence
14 Oct 21:33 | 145
Science
Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we're still picking up X-rays. We don't know why
'Discovering a new type of celestial source is very exciting' lead astroboffin tells us
14 Oct 06:54 | 42
Science
Supermassive black hole turns unlucky star into spaghetti
Pasta la vista, baby
13 Oct 05:05 | 27
Science
Boeing Starliner commander Christopher Ferguson bows out of first crewed mission due to family commitments
Not going anywhere, just not going to space. A bit like the calamity capsule
09 Oct 13:49 | 47
Science
EFF off: Privacy Badger disables by default anti-tracking safeguard that can be abused to track you online
Google has a word with digital rights warriors
09 Oct 07:56 | 17
Science
A 73bn-kg, skyscraper-size chocolate creme egg spinning fast enough to eventually explode – it's asteroid Bennu
And we're about to extract a sample from it
09 Oct 05:02 | 36
Science
It's in their DNA: Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to pioneers of the CRISPR gene-editing tool
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna will split $1m+ winnings
08 Oct 05:44 | 16
In brief
SpaceX breaks run of scrubs with Starlink launch: Darth Musk finds your lack of faith in on-time launches... disturbing
Also: James Webb Space Telescope shaken but not stirred, and Cygnus brings relief to the ISS
07 Oct 14:02 | 10
Science
Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics for their black-hole breakthroughs
Congratulations to Sir Roger Penrose, Andrea Gehz, Reinhard Genzel
07 Oct 07:26 | 36
Science
Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 'superhabitable' exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life
Just a short 100 or more light years away
06 Oct 07:33 | 76
In brief
ISS? More like HISS, am I right? Space station air leakage narrowed down to Russia's Zvezda module
Also: Scrubtember becomes Abortober, and the worm returns once more to NASA
02 Oct 14:30 | 37
Science
Since the EU won't share all its toys, UK Space Agency fires up fund to support more international collaboration
£5m pot opened to biz and academics who fancy projects with foreign flavour
01 Oct 13:55 | 22
Popular
Emergent Tech
President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds
White House immigration restrictions knock less than half a per cent off
Who, Me?
A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials
Only a complete banker would map that to... oh dear...
Open Source Summit Europe
Linux kernel's Kroah-Hartman: We're not struggling to get new coders, it's code review that's the bottleneck
Plus: 'Intel is not doing well with disclosures. I’m not happy. It’s not getting better'
In brief
How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers
Plus: Facebook won't get lost in translation, Cruise all set to build fleet of driverless taxis, and more
Personal Tech
Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network
Hotel Zuckerfornia: You can check in but you can never check out... without losing everything
Feature
Yes, we have a 5G iPhone now. But that doesn't mean 5G has arrived
And please forget about that 4th industrial revolution because most networks only have NSA 5G
Personal Tech
Honey, I shrunk the battery: Something's gotta give as iPhone 12's logic board swells to accommodate 5G chippery
Next-gen connectivity requires reshuffle beneath the surface
Software
Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November
'Hey, you folks heard that there's this virus starting to spread?' – IE, probably
Networks
QUIC! IETF sets November deadline for last comments on TCP-killer spawned by Google and Cloudflare
Next comes all the joy and laughter of the standards process
Science
NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop
Collector is leaking regolith, sparking swift stash plan
STORIES
Video
Looking for a new hobby to kill the COVID-19 blues? Join NASA's Planet Patrol to hunt for alien worlds
You, over there, rustle up a warp drive while we're finding a new galactic pad
01 Oct 06:02 | 7
Science
Casting a teleport spell is out of the question? Next Falcon-powered 'naut trip to space station set for Halloween
SpaceX launch pushed back to spooky-tastic Oct 31
29 Sep 23:58 | 5
Video
Good news: Euro sat spots liquid pools on Mars. Bad news: Under ice, saltier than someone who put last penny into a failed crypto biz
ESA also finds planet hot enough to melt iron
29 Sep 06:54 | 13
Science
Square Kilometre Array signs off on construction plans – UK last holdout before building phase begins
Now to figure out how to run 100,000-plus antennae and squeeze out 130 petabytes of data each year
29 Sep 06:28 | 32
Science
Not the Southern Rail of the stars: Rocket Lab plans frequent, regular trips to Venus from 2023
Peter Beck and 300 seconds of really rather interesting data
28 Sep 08:16 | 24
Science
FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth
What a load of rubbish
27 Sep 07:03 | 35
Video
Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home
Dress rehearsals done, nice shingly crater chosen – it's go time
25 Sep 11:33 | 13
Science
NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet
The tiny X-ray bullets are only the size of a grain of sand. Pew! Pew! Pew!
24 Sep 12:15 | 21
Ignite
Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles
Augment me to the Moon, with AR among the stars
23 Sep 15:30 | 5
GIF
And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time
67P is a gift that keeps on giving
23 Sep 13:10 | 8
Ignite
To bring data down from the heavens, come to GSaaS, says Microsoft as it launches Azure Orbital
Birds that aren't geostationary can tap Redmond's Ground-Station-as-a-Service for all their downloading needs
22 Sep 17:54 | 3
In Brief
SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve
Also: Rocket Lab rehearses for a US debut while Firefly fires up an Alpha
22 Sep 10:00 | 1
Science
Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs
Comes not long after firm ditched hybrid-electric propulsion demonstrator
21 Sep 18:01 | 216
Science
We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*
*Brexit Satellite. What did you think we meant? GPS continues to rule the roost in Blighty for now
21 Sep 15:00 | 222
Science
Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home
NASA's long-lived spacecraft reaches another milestone
18 Sep 21:00 | 68
In brief
One down, two to go: Astra's first attempt to reach orbit scuppered by iffy guidance
Also: Cygnus named for Columbia 'naut, and Space Shuttle Endeavour dressed up for launch
17 Sep 09:15 | 10
Science
Astroboffins reckon evidence of Martian life has probably been destroyed where liquid acid flowed on the Red Planet
Fortunately, it looks like Perseverance rover will start digging in the right place
16 Sep 17:31 | 9
Science
Research into deflecting potentially world-destroying asteroids is apparently not a 'national priority' for the UK
Blighty didn't miss out on ESA award like with Copernicus, it's just more worried about space junk than Hera
16 Sep 11:20 | 40
Video
Howdy, er, neighbor – mind if we join you? Potential sign of life spotted in Venus's atmosphere
Aliens may not be so different from us here on Earth – unintelligent and gassy
14 Sep 21:58 | 33
