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Over the Moon? Not quite: NASA boss has a good whinge about 'counterproductive' Authorization Bill
It's all Boeing to go wrong unless everyone gets to come to the party
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Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program
Don’t worry: The PM's only going to let the best boffins in... honest
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Remember that 2024 Moon thing? How about Mars in 2033? Authorization bill moots 2028 for more lunar footprints
Looks like Lucy might move the ball again
27 Jan 12:39 | 56
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Brit brainiacs say they've cracked non-volatile RAM that uses 100 times less power
'Within the next decade we'll either have it or we won't,' prof tells The Reg
27 Jan 10:47 | 72
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German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry
Geek's Guide to BritainEl Reg visits Westcott and the Isle of Wight in search of more of Britain's forgotten rocket centres
27 Jan 09:15 | 40
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SLS goes vertical at Stennis while NASA practises SRB stacking
Shades of Saturn V as Artemis I inches closer to launch
23 Jan 12:49 | 37
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Two billion years ago, snowball Earth was defrosted in huge asteroid crash – and it's been downhill ever since
PicSpace prang raised temperatures, melted glaciers, influenced climate, next thing we know: we're sharing AI-filtered selfies on Insta
23 Jan 05:52 | 82
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Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover
Destined to die a lonely Martian death? How about Doomed Buggy?
22 Jan 11:46 | 61
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SpaceX ponders its next mission to blot out the Sun with another 60 Starlink sats
RoundupAlso: ISS batteries changed, Virgin's fleet grows, Rocket Lab makes nod to crap sitcom, and more
21 Jan 11:23 | 5
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Fly me to the M(O2)n: Euro scientists extract oxygen from 'lunar dust' by cooking it with molten salt electrolysis
'Being able to acquire oxygen would obviously be hugely useful for future settlers'
21 Jan 07:27 | 89
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World-record-breaking boffins reveal the fastest spinning thing on Earth – and it's not George Orwell in his grave
Privacy's dead but, hey, we've got nanoparticles spinning at 300 billion RPM. So that's cool
21 Jan 05:36 | 31
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Big Falcon explosion as SpaceX successfully demos Crew Dragon abort systems
Mere months until 'nauts get a ticket to ride?
20 Jan 10:30 | 88
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The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded
Yum, long noodle-like stars
16 Jan 06:54 | 30
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15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin
Negative torque didn't bring the plucky spacecraft down, thankfully
15 Jan 06:03 | 35
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NASA is Boeing to get to the bottom of that Starliner snafu... plus SpaceX preps to blow up a Falcon 9
RoundupAlso: Fancy a trip round the Moon? Of course you do, but there's a catch...
14 Jan 09:15 | 33
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Geoboffins find the oldest matter on Earth: Ancient stardust created before the Solar System formed
That's way, way, way older than the dust off your oldest PC
14 Jan 05:16 | 22
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There's a cling-on off the starboard bow... Small moon spotted orbiting asteroid NASA's Lucy will visit in 2027
Tch-oh, you wait for one cosmic rock and then two show up
10 Jan 20:04 | 10
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H0LiCOW: Cosmoboffins still have no idea why universe seems to be expanding more rapidly than expected
New estimation of Hubble Constant emerges
10 Jan 07:18 | 83
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Astroboffins discover Sun is surfing on 9,000-light-year gas wave that acts as Milky Way's stellar nursery
The Radcliffe is totally radical
09 Jan 06:51 | 21
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Blame of thrones: Those viral vids of PC monitors going blank when people stand up? Static electricity from chairs
VideoEl Reg speaks to ex-AT&T boffin who previously probed weird effect
09 Jan 05:58 | 61
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Brit brainiacs say they've cracked non-volatile RAM that uses 100 times less power
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Maryland: Make malware possession a crime! Yes, yes, researchers get a free pass
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Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program
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Remember that 2024 Moon thing? How about Mars in 2033? Authorization bill moots 2028 for more lunar footprints
Looks like Lucy might move the ball again
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Pack your bags! NASA's latest exoplanet hunter satellite finds its first Earth-sized world in a habitable zone – and it's only 100 light years away
VidTESS also spots Tatooine-alike
08 Jan 05:12 | 23
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Is there alien life on Earth? Maybe, says Brit 'naut. Well, where did they come from? How about this far-away cluster. Or this 'Godzilla' galaxy...
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From Soviet to science fiction icon, the weird life of Isaac Asimov 100 years on
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06 Jan 10:34 | 143
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NASA's monster rocket inches towards testing while India plots return to the Moon
Chandrayaan-3 to be a bit less crashy this time around
03 Jan 13:46 | 39
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A cheery New Year tale: How the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station might rise once more
Missed The Great Escape this year? How about boffins rescuing sat dishes from the scrappers instead?
02 Jan 13:35 | 10
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European Space Agency launches planet-hunting Cheops while Rocket Lab starts on a third launchpad
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24 Dec 13:30 | 29
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Starliner: Boeing, Boeing... it's back! Borked capsule makes a successful return to Earth
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This isn't Boeing very well... Faulty timer knackers Starliner cargo capsule on its way to International Space Station
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20 Dec 23:56 | 113
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No, Illyrian, Naqaỹa, Mastika, Automex aren't Hollywood's hottest baby names – they're new monikers for exoplanets
The IAU brandishes 112 new names for the star systems and its exoplanets to celebrate its 100 year anniversary
18 Dec 08:02 | 9
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Happy Artemis Day everybody! NASA preps its monster rocket for testing
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17 Dec 12:28 | 22
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Someone get Greenpeace on the line. Boffins clock carbon 'pollution' cloud 30,000 light-years wide choking galaxies
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17 Dec 05:04 | 25
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And now for this evening's space weather report. We've got a hotspot of satellite-wrecking 'killer electrons' in the outer Van Allen belt...
...So consider rerouting your journey through that
13 Dec 22:51 | 31
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Rocket Lab ends year by cutting ribbon on first launchpad in the US
Launch opportunities per year now over 130. Actually launched in 2019: 6
13 Dec 18:00 | 3
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100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins
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13 Dec 05:56 | 53
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OK. We're off. Water ice found just below the surface of Mars. Good enough for us. Let's go. Impulse power, Mr Sulu
Let's grab a nice cold drink on the Red Planet. Don't forget to pack a shovel
12 Dec 23:21 | 84
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No box shifting, no Buck Rogers. Bezos-backed Blue Origin blasts off once again
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12 Dec 15:15 | 21
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It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it
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12 Dec 12:04 | 44
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You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched
UpdatedWe knew it was too good to be true
12 Dec 06:55 | 48
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Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States
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