Science

Boffins blame meteorites for creating Earth's oldest rocks

Smash, bang, wallop what a planetary crust,
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14 Aug 06:30

Brain brainiacs figure out what turns folks into El Reg journos, readers

Why are we eternal pessimists? And why's that such a bad thing, eh? Eh? Eh?
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10 Aug 05:03

Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

Join the Mobile Infantry and save the Galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?
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10 Aug 04:16

First low-frequency fast radio burst to grace our skies detected at last

Nobody knows what these rare speedy electromagnetic spurts really are
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03 Aug 07:04

Blast from the past: Boffins find the fastest exploding non-supernova star

Eta Carinae's Big Eruption might yet go supernova
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03 Aug 05:01

Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered

British civil servants go bonkers with no booze, or too much
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02 Aug 05:01

Build your own NASA space rover: Here are the DIY JPL blueprints

Go on, you know you want to grab these open-source designs and lash them together
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02 Aug 04:09

Now that's a dodgy Giza: Eggheads claim Great Pyramid can focus electromagnetic waves

And the Leaning Tower of Pisa can pick up BBC World Service
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01 Aug 06:07

The Solar System's oldest minerals reveal the Sun's violent past

Blue crystals hidden in space rocks open hidden secrets
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31 Jul 07:01

Hurrah! Boffins finally discover liquid water sloshing around on Mars

Idea was first speculated more than 30 years ago – now hidden lake detected
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26 Jul 05:02

All that dust on Mars is coming from one weird giant alien structure

Impress pals at the pub by telling them about the creepy-sounding Medusae Fossae
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25 Jul 05:02

Sorry, Neil Armstrong. Boffins say you may not have been first life-form to set foot on the Moon

Earth's satellite may have been habitable billions of years ago
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24 Jul 06:07
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Alien sun has smashing time sucking up planets

First case of solar suckage
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20 Jul 06:01

Fukushima reactors lend exotic nuclear finish to California's wines

Smooth body with a perky top note and a hint of cesium-137 for post-2011 vintages
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19 Jul 20:00
jupiter

By Jove! Astroboffins spot 12 new spanking moons around Jupiter

Now it has 79 satellites, and one is a tiny 'oddball'
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17 Jul 20:56

Geoboffins spot hundreds of ghost dunes on Mars

It may have shielded life from harmful rays of radiation billions of years ago
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12 Jul 08:15

Astroboffins spy the brightest quasar that lit the universe's dark ages

The light has only taken 13 billion years to reach us
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09 Jul 22:58

Open plan offices flop – you talk less, IM more, if forced to flee a cubicle

Scratch the surface and most of us are misanthropic recluses
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09 Jul 07:28

Spidey sense is literally tingling! Arachnids detect Earth's electric field, use it to fly away

VideoUp, up, and away in my silky eight-legged balloon
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06 Jul 22:29

Universe slipped Milky Way a sausage galaxy to grow a big belly bulge

It's the largest dwarf galaxy to smash into us yet found
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06 Jul 05:03

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a giant alien space cigar? Whatever it is, boffins are baffled

PicOr 'Oumuamua could just be a weird tail-less comet
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28 Jun 07:01

Galileo, here we go again. My my, the Brits are gonna miss EU

Britain launching its own sat looks more and more likely
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27 Jun 10:42

NASA eggheads draw up blueprints for spotting, surviving asteroid hits

First America frets about aliens at its borders, now actual alien bodies turning up from space
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21 Jun 06:04

Geoboffins baffled as Ceres is crawling with carbon organics

Comets might have seeded the surface over millennia
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14 Jun 07:58

Astroboffins 'sprinkle iron filings' over remnant supernova

And discover it made a magnet that points 'up'
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14 Jun 03:57

Astroboffins spot planets swimming in the mists of forming stars

New technique looks for patterns in protostars
13 Jun 21:38

Solar winds will help ESA probe smell what Mercury's cookin'

Sun's exhalations whip up molecules on planets with weak magnetic fields
13 Jun 13:19

Kepler finds three Earth-sized exoplanets, but they're too hot to handle

Upside: the kettle will always be ready. Downside: forget living on the surface
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13 Jun 00:58
moondust

Woman sues NASA for ownership of vial of space dust

She claims it was gift from Apollo veteran Neil Armstrong
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12 Jun 07:01
diamond_dust_galaxy

Astroboffins trace mysterious noise from hard rock in space

Signs in the sky from diamonds
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11 Jun 20:27
Martian Dust Storm

Done and dusted? Vast storm gobbles NASA's long-lived Mars robot

Opportunity survived 2007 gale, but this one's way worse
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11 Jun 11:54
alien

NASA finds more stuff suggesting Mars could have hosted life, maybe

Organic material and methane finds can’t be tied to biological processes
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08 Jun 04:30
Hayabusa2 gives asteroid asteroid 1999JU3 the horn

Japan's asteroid-hunting robot Hayabusa2 has its prey within its sights

Landing, roving, cratering. What could possibly go wrong? Hopefully, nothing
07 Jun 18:15
jupiter_lightning

Juno finds some lightning on Jupiter is the polar opposite to bolts here on Earth

Spacecraft gets mission extension to keep on gazing
NASA logo

USA! USA! We're No.1! And we want to keep it that way – in spaaaace

And we don't want to pay for it!
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06 Jun 16:01
GOES-16 Earth with Moon

No lie-in this morning? Thank the Moon's gravitational pull

Complex tidal forces have drawn out the day
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06 Jun 06:30
Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn

NASA makes the James Webb Telescope a looker with a heart of gold

Astroboffins get precious about heat protection in space
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05 Jun 23:51
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