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 | 21
Science
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 | 8
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 | 37
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
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
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Security
Video encoders using Huawei chips have backdoors and bad bugs – and Chinese giant says it's not to blame
Telecom kit maker points finger in the general direction of Middle Kingdom's complicated supply chain
Security
Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior
It starts with a backpack of $200 of electronics and poor Wi-Fi security
Software
Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature requested 21 years ago
As Mozilla kills off secure file transfer tool because – shock! – it was being abused
Security
Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe
Extortionware is bad but it never killed anyo... never mind
On Call
He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended
Go pivot on this
Personal Tech
Ah yes, Sony, that major player in the smartphone space, has a new flagship inbound: The Xperia 5 II
Snapdragon 865-powered, 120Hz tall boy focuses on fun and games
Emergent Tech
What did they do – twist his Arm? Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased
Vector-math processor core for high-perf computing promised, too
Networks
Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity
All is well. Unless you trust everything you see on the internet
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
Bootnotes
Amazon Lex can now speak British English... or simply 'English' if you're British
Alexa-derived chatbot tech allegedly understands 'the British accent', but fails to recognise that there are many
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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
Science
Good news: NASA boffins spot closest near-Earth asteroid ever. Bad news: We never saw it coming. Good news: It's also really small
Thing was the size of a car, moved at 12km/sec, missed us by just 2,950km
19 Aug 08:47 | 40
Interview
A Song of Iceland Fire: Scotland's Skyrora launches Skylark Micro rocket from volcanic viking outpost
Have containers, will travel
18 Aug 11:14 | 7
In brief
Just like many of us during lockdown, Arianespace has bulked up payload capacity on its heavy lifter by 85kg
Also: NASA and SpaceX name the date for Crew-1, Orion assembly almost done, and more
17 Aug 13:58 |
Science
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Winking red supergiants sneezing hot gas 650 light years away
Hubble probe readings may reveal what caused Betelgeuse to briefly dim
13 Aug 21:28 | 28
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America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
Venerable Arecibo Observatory showing its age
12 Aug 21:42 | 64
In brief
Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons
Also: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks
11 Aug 17:20 | 8
Science
Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?
Dawn probe's last data shows surprising results from asteroid belt
11 Aug 10:00 | 7
Science
NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects
‘Horsehead Nebula’ is okay, ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ is not
10 Aug 06:07 | 181
