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 | 9
Science
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 | 18
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 | 4
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 | 195
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 | 215
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 | 65
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
Science
NASA is sending two small hand-luggage suitcase-sized spacecraft into the void to study binary asteroids
Janus mission seeks solution to orbiting space rocks in the Solar System
12 Sep 13:01 | 27
Updated
NASA puts an Astrobee to work sweeping the ISS. Yep, floating cube good at taking pics and hanging around....
... but humans still needed to fix the 'Hygiene Compartment'
11 Sep 20:25 | 6
Science
Desperately seeking regolith: NASA seeks proposals for collecting Moon dirt
Hand-over to happen on the lunar surface. Legally speaking
10 Sep 20:42 | 25
Science
No, it's not the trailer for the new Dune, it's the potential view from the 'Super Hi-Vision Camera' on Japan's 2024 mission to Mars
Hayabusa's heading home, but 8K's going to Mars
10 Sep 15:30 | 9
Science
Shine on you crazy diamond: We don't know who needs to hear it but NASA's explained the weird shape of the Bennu asteroid
Something that doesn't involve viruses, politics and wildfires
10 Sep 10:13 | 17
Science
Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps
Diamonds are forever, scholarly articles not so much, it seems
10 Sep 07:04 | 35
Science
Northrop Grumman wins $13.3bn contract with US Air Force to kick off Minuteman III ICBM replacement
Last one standing after Boeing's 2019 bail
09 Sep 17:48 | 35
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Software
Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods
Solution? A software update, natch
Software
England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data
Just in time for the second wave and new movement restrictions
Software
Frames per second? Windows Terminal brings back text animation with the VT100 blink
Tired of all the new at Microsoft's Ignite? Enjoy a bit of DEC goodness
Data Centre
India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker
RISC-V design can play nice with Arduino and was totally home-spun so that’s something
Personal Tech
Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning
If at first you don't succeed, fail again
Artificial Intelligence
Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam
Elon Musk wants his money back, Volvo, Ford, Mercedes also pile in
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BT cutting contractors' rates by a fifth and halving notice period because 'coronavirus'
Telco tells freelancers it 'isn't immune to the economic volatility and uncertainty' caused by pandemic
Personal Tech
It's the year of Linux on the... ThinkPad as Lenovo extends out-of-the-box Ubuntu support to nearly 30 machines
PCs for suited penguins
Software
NHS COVID-19 launch: Risk-scoring algorithm criticised, the downloads, plus public told to 'upgrade their phones'
So... totally seamless then
Security
Ex-eBay global intel staffers to admit they cyberstalked online tat bazaar's critics – who got pig heads, funeral wreath, and more in the mail
Four to plead guilty, accused senior bosses insist they weren't involved
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Science
Zero. Zilch. Nada. That's how many signs of intelligent life astroboffins found in probe of TEN MILLION stars
Survey was huge, but we can do better - So don't go all '2020 sure is the year for feeling alone' on us, OK?
09 Sep 08:01 | 57
Science
India flies Mach 6 scramjet for 20 whole seconds
Covered 40kms in that short time and quadrupled previous efforts
08 Sep 00:58 | 67
In brief
Rocket Lab deploys Photon, er, in-house built satellite on Flight 14
Also: More Starlink and hopping fun for SpaceX and Northrop Grumman lights the blue touchpaper for SLS
07 Sep 18:33 | 15
Science
China launches and lands its first re-usable spacecraft
And it might just have been a spaceplane to rival the USA’s X-37
07 Sep 06:45 | 22
Science
Astronomers get more than they bargained for, as Mars probe InSight's instruments detects solar eclipses
Tiny tilt from the probe's seisometer could map Phobos' orbit and help boffins predict when it'll crash into Mars
05 Sep 11:01 | 26
Science
Like Uber, but for satellite launches: European Space Agency’s ride-sharing rocket slings 53 birds with one bang
Vega returns to service after 2019 failure and brings AI to spaaaaace
04 Sep 07:43 | 13
Science
Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault
We're not talking about the programming language, either
03 Sep 06:04 | 45
Video
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a pair of black holes coalesced resulting in largest gravitational wave we've seen
Void forged in merger event also the first of its kind spotted
02 Sep 12:00 | 54
Interview
Rocket Lab boss Peter Beck talks to The Reg about crap weather, reusing boosters, and taking a trip to Venus
'It's so under-appreciated as a planet compared to Mars'
02 Sep 09:07 | 43
In brief
Two out of four ain't bad: It's been a weekend of mixed emotions for rocket fanciers
Also: Scotland edges closer to launch, and ad astra Gerald 'Jerry' Carr
01 Sep 18:38 | 10
Science
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a 56-year-old satellite burning up in the sky spotted by sharp school kids
NASA's OGO-1 dies a natural death after reentering Earth's atmosphere
01 Sep 00:58 | 24
Science
Worried about the Andromeda galaxy crashing into our Milky Way in four billion years? Too bad, it's quite possibly already happening
Well, halo, halo
28 Aug 05:03 | 58
Science
Autonomous robots that can be injected? Not as far off as it sounds, say boffins, thanks to new ion-powered silicon legs
Push off, you can't be serious...
27 Aug 09:01 | 12
Science
The truth is, honest people need willpower to cheat, while cheaters need it to be honest
You can't trust anyone: Researchers had to lie to participants to get result
26 Aug 09:59 | 49
Science
Fusion boffins apply plasma know-how to building thrusters
'For a fusion company, it's quite nice to have a product that works'
25 Aug 08:44 | 20
Science
Crack this mystery: Something rotated the ice shell around Jupiter's Europa millions of years ago, fracturing it
You broke it, you pay for it
23 Aug 23:35 | 23
Science
Pew, pew, pew! Our galaxy is shooting cold, gaseous 'bullets' of high-speed matter. Boffins are baffled
Mysterious behavior spotted at the Milky Way's center
21 Aug 10:14 | 14
Science
Tired: Cheap space launch outfits. Wired: Software-and-data-as-a-service for cheap space launch outfits
Japan’s iSpace has put itself in the second column but also plans lunar landers of its own
21 Aug 02:57 | 6
Science
Space station update: Mystery tiny but growing air leak sparks search for hole
Terror at 1,340,000 feet – if this was anything to truly worry about right now
21 Aug 00:45 | 44
