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Remember, remember, the 14th of November (if you're an astronaut): NASA names the date for Crew-1 mission to ISS

Also: ESA looks to the Moon, RocketLab launches another 10 sats, and SpaceX probably thinks that's cute

30 Oct 10:45 | 4

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Trouble at Skull-Top Ridge: ESA boffins use data wizardry to figure out Philae probe's second touchdown site

Comets: Crunchy on the outside... frothy on the inside?

28 Oct 18:25 | 9

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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 | 69

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 | 14

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Supermassive black hole turns unlucky star into spaghetti

Pasta la vista, baby

13 Oct 05:05 | 27

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Remember, remember, the 14th of November (if you're an astronaut): NASA names the date for Crew-1 mission to ISS

Trouble at Skull-Top Ridge: ESA boffins use data wizardry to figure out Philae probe's second touchdown site

Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope

NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop

ISS air leakage fixed in time for crew handover, thanks to floating teabag

We know there are a lot of, er, distractions right now but NASA's got some sweet video of its asteroid rubble raiser

FYI: NASA appears to have scooped dirt from an asteroid 200 million miles away and plans to bring it back home

Everybody's going to the Moon (and Mars): The Reg chats to ESA about 10-year plans and sending Tim back to space

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

Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure

Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines

Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we're still picking up X-rays. We don't know why

Supermassive black hole turns unlucky star into spaghetti

Boeing Starliner commander Christopher Ferguson bows out of first crewed mission due to family commitments

EFF off: Privacy Badger disables by default anti-tracking safeguard that can be abused to track you online

A 73bn-kg, skyscraper-size chocolate creme egg spinning fast enough to eventually explode – it's asteroid Bennu

It's in their DNA: Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to pioneers of the CRISPR gene-editing tool

SpaceX breaks run of scrubs with Starlink launch: Darth Musk finds your lack of faith in on-time launches... disturbing

Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics for their black-hole breakthroughs

Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 'superhabitable' exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life

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A cloud server with no network, no persistent storage, and no user access – what is AWS thinking?

Software engineer leaked UK missile system secrets and refused to hand cops his passwords, Old Bailey told

NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly

Another eBay exec pleads guilty after couple stalked, harassed for daring to criticize the internet tat bazaar

Brave browser first to nix CNAME deception, the sneaky DNS trick used by marketers to duck privacy controls

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

Devs strung up about .NET 5.0 string changes that may break working code are told: It's not a bug, it's a feature

SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces

Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first

Can we stop megacorps from using and abusing our data? That ship has sailed, ex-NSA lawyer argues in new book

ISS? More like HISS, am I right? Space station air leakage narrowed down to Russia's Zvezda module

Since the EU won't share all its toys, UK Space Agency fires up fund to support more international collaboration

Looking for a new hobby to kill the COVID-19 blues? Join NASA's Planet Patrol to hunt for alien worlds

Casting a teleport spell is out of the question? Next Falcon-powered 'naut trip to space station set for Halloween

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

Square Kilometre Array signs off on construction plans – UK last holdout before building phase begins

Not the Southern Rail of the stars: Rocket Lab plans frequent, regular trips to Venus from 2023

FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth

Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time

To bring data down from the heavens, come to GSaaS, says Microsoft as it launches Azure Orbital

SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve

Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home

One down, two to go: Astra's first attempt to reach orbit scuppered by iffy guidance

Astroboffins reckon evidence of Martian life has probably been destroyed where liquid acid flowed on the Red Planet

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