Earlier Space stories
Nuclear Mars tank prepares for 8-thruster dance
MSL's engines fire up in choreographed sequence in push for Mars
9 Jan 16:42
Mars rover seeks perfect suntan spot to survive winter
Opportunity's solar panels get juiced up on Greeley Haven slopes
9 Jan 10:58
Former coder, NASA 'naut to lead DARPA starship dream
Galactic bus boss also Trekkie, 1st African-American woman in space
9 Jan 10:01
Duff Russian Mars probe spotted flying in reverse
Video shows why contact with Phobos-Grunt failed
6 Jan 21:10
'You have to worry about the management of Twitter'
Quotw From Wendi Deng fake to Phobos-Grunt's fiery fate
6 Jan 13:02
US 'space warplane' may be spying on Chinese spacelab
Is X-37B's secret mission watching Heavenly Palace?
6 Jan 11:25
At least 10 days till hot Phobos-Grunt chunks rain down
Earliest estimate for fallout from doomed Russian Mars probe 'may change'
4 Jan 16:02
Exotic Russian rock CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
Alien quasicrystal find sheds light on solar system birth
4 Jan 11:02
UK space agency to boldly send techies ... behind a desk
Blighty advertises for boffins, IT workers and admin staff
4 Jan 10:02
Space soldiers save satellite from FLAMING DEATH
The little engine that could rescues $2bn military bird
4 Jan 01:41
Area 51 to host sci-fi knocking shop
'Alien Cathouse' will cater to 'all flavors of geek fantasy'
3 Jan 11:34
Explicit pics of glorious rounded globes snapped in festive Saturnalia
Curvy beauties moon for the camera
31 Dec 10:00
New Chinese space plans are all about security and strategy on Earth
Analysis Nothing much to do with manned or deep space exploring
30 Dec 11:26
ALIEN ARTIFACTS can best be FOUND ON MOON
Boffins advocate volunteer @home trawl of NASA's lunar pix
29 Dec 12:49
Christmas solar plasma belches to hit Earth, Mars - and Mars rover in space
Sun emits festive eruptions, but no bad effects foreseen
29 Dec 10:23
NASA to place twin probes in Moon orbit as you snog beneath mistletoe
Formation-flying washing machines in spaaaace! Excellent
28 Dec 11:33
Chinese confirm Beidou satnav system is operational
GPS rival plans world domination by 2020
27 Dec 18:06
A year in spaaaaace: El Reg looks back on 2011
Era of the spaceplane ends, robot exploration continues
26 Dec 10:00
Pluto's blushing complexion riddle solved by boffins
Hubble spectrograph shines light on dwarf planet's colouring
22 Dec 13:24
Deep-fried planets discovery offers hope for Earth’s future
Our world may actually survive flame-grilling by dying sun
22 Dec 10:38
NASA finds first Earth-sized planets outside the solar system
Unfortunately, they're hellishly hot ...
21 Dec 10:41
Three more 'nauts prepare for space station housewarming
Crew blasts off tomorrow in time for weightless Xmas
20 Dec 11:42
Comet Lovejoy survives brush with fiery solar death
Space rock improbably flies through the heat of the Sun
19 Dec 13:28
NASA detects 'heartbeat' of pint-sized star-sucker
Smallest black hole ever found – and maybe ever will be
16 Dec 23:11
Duff Mars probe's flaming shards to rain down mid-January
Up to 30 bits of Phobos-Grunt to hit Earth
16 Dec 14:41
Comet Lovejoy spotted plunging toward fiery doom
Space ice-lump to melt away above the far side of the Sun
15 Dec 16:36
Super black hole about to scoff speeding space dinner
Gas cloud barrels toward event horizon ... and oblivion
15 Dec 10:35
Paul Allen latest plan: Space rockets on MEGA PLANE
This one's definitely not made of spruce, though
14 Dec 13:28
Cosmic Cannonball snapped blazing a bloody trail of star guts
Pic 3,000,000MPH neutron star formed from supernova
13 Dec 16:45
Martians lived underground, say Oz boffins
Water and energy available but not on the surface
12 Dec 22:30
Japan launches, orbits radar spy satellite
Fingers crossed that this one can snoop Norks
12 Dec 20:12
Elon Musk's private Dragon ship to dock with ISS in Feb
Then descend for splashdown, unlike European ATVs
12 Dec 10:42
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