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Astronomers map largest ever zone of dark matter

MegaCam maps 10 million galaxies

10 Jan 01:10

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

NASA's twin GRAILs reunite in lunar orbit

Formation-flying probes reach the Moon

3 Jan 11:06

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

Christmas cosmonauts set out safely for ISS

Along with ESA and NASA astronauts

21 Dec 15:32

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

Virginia ponders tax breaks for (dead) human space flights

The right stuff - cremated

13 Dec 13:41

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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