Mars helicopter phones home after 63 days of silence If Japanese space boffins have their way, it could be joined by a robotic hummingbird Science03 Jul 2023 | 3
Europe's Euclid telescope launches to figure out dark energy, the universe, and everything Interview We speak to project scientist on effort to build 3D map of space going back ten billion years Science01 Jul 2023 | 12
Report reveals US Space Force unprepared to counter orbital threats 20 years of searching for spider holes has given Russia, China lots of time to secure the skies for themselves Science30 Jun 2023 | 24
Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space Video It only took nearly 20 years and one death to get there Science29 Jun 2023 | 67
UK's dream of fusion power by 2040s will need GPUs Boffins plan 'digital twin' to help hit deadline, recruit heavy-hitting partners Science29 Jun 2023 | 19
Fire-resistant drones promise to help rescuers in a hot spot NASA space suits provide inspiration to Swiss and Brit boffins Science28 Jun 2023 | 2
NIST boffins shrink atomic beam clock to the size of a postage stamp It's not the most accurate atomic clock in the world, but the NIST team behind it believes they can fix that Science27 Jun 2023 | 14
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this Science27 Jun 2023 | 30
NASA and miners face off over lithium deposits at satellite calibration site There's smartphone batteries to be mined, but at what cost? Science26 Jun 2023 | 15
Wind tunnels for fluid dynamics boffins among UKRI's £72M funding Funds will focus on energy, transportation, astronomy, and healthcare Science26 Jun 2023 | 25
MIT discovery suggests a new class of superconductors You who think superconductivity can't happen without spin polarization? Hold my FeSe Science23 Jun 2023 | 21
Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors Debris points to 'catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,' says Coast Guard Science22 Jun 2023 | 314
Intelsat and SES merger to create $10B satellite giant is off Hear that, Amazon Kuiper and Starlink? The coast is clear... Unlike the skies. Ahem Science22 Jun 2023 | 1
Pangolin-inspired robot can roll around your guts administering treatments Flexing device works where surgeons find hard to reach Science22 Jun 2023 | 4
Existential dread time: One day Earth's oceans will boil. This exoplanet might reveal when LP 890-9c gives us a glimpse into our world's far future, astronomer tells El Reg Science22 Jun 2023 | 26
BepiColombo probe turns to the dark side … of Mercury Sends home snaps on third fly-by of six as it heads for orbit in 2025 Science21 Jun 2023 | 13
Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine It has enough air to last until Thursday, but if it isn't already on the surface rescue operations could be impossible Science20 Jun 2023 | 201
NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability They'll be replaced with longer, thinner wings supported by a truss Science14 Jun 2023 | 97
Software picks out more satellite photobombs in Hubble image Multi-exposure masking helps mitigate modern era interferance Science13 Jun 2023 | 18
Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite Tech has potential to power war-torn spots and remote regions The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 42
JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
Whistleblower claims Uncle Sam is sitting on hoard of alien vehicles and tech Ex-UAP analyst reckons he was harassed for telling Congress Science07 Jun 2023 | 77
Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation Outdated ISS system will need an upgrade if we're to go further into space The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 82
NASA's heavy metal Psyche asteroid trip is a go for October Team problems found last year seem to have been resolved Science07 Jun 2023 | 4
James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away Most distant smoke and smog discovery could help explain star formation in the early universe The Reg in Space06 Jun 2023 | 14
This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again Flammable tape and unreliable parachutes ground craft this time around Science02 Jun 2023 | 82
Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres Achievement took 12 years of blood, sweat and science Science01 Jun 2023 | 8
NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing Video We need better data! If only everyone could carry a high-quality camera and apps to share pics... Science01 Jun 2023 | 78
Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again How cool? About -250°C Science31 May 2023 | 23
Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan Science31 May 2023 | 122
CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules So much for the Standard Model of particle physics? Science30 May 2023 | 46
Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder The Reg in Space30 May 2023 | 42
Neuralink says US OK's human experiments with Elon's brain chips Hopefully this tech works better than his self-driving cars Science26 May 2023 | 36
LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves The instrument that proved Einstein right is back The Reg in Space26 May 2023 | 23
IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ Science26 May 2023 | 26
Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk Comment Pioneering research effectively reconnects patient's motor cortex with his spinal cord Science26 May 2023 | 42
After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds Nuri rocket has done the business – now to get into the business Science26 May 2023 | 3
Virgin Galactic flies final test before opening for business $450k buys you about 90 minutes of space adventure and a sub-orbital glimpse of Earth Science26 May 2023 | 38
Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill SETI encouraging everyone to break out their decoder rings, get in on the simulated first-contact fun Science24 May 2023 | 23
Virgin Orbit-uary: Beardy Branson's satellite launch biz shutters Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch, and Vast pick at the corpse Science24 May 2023 | 25
Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth Juno probe strikes at the similarities despite differences in planets' size and structure Science24 May 2023 | 6
Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind Boffins call for end to UFO stigma Science23 May 2023 | 78
China seeks space cargo launches well below prices NASA pays SpaceX Asia In Brief Plus: ChatGPT hallucinates Japan's PM; Infosys scores huge BP deal; Grab on the way to becoming a bank; and more Science22 May 2023 | 8
Astronomers spot Earth-sized exoplanet probably 'carpeted' by volcanoes The floor is lava. Literally. But at least there might be water Science18 May 2023 | 16
Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill 'Liz' learns you don't screw over rich people Science17 May 2023 | 72
Stratolaunch takes hypersonic flight dreams to new heights with mid-air release success Paul Allen must be smiling up there ahead of test flight in summer Science17 May 2023 | 9
North Korea shows off surveillance satellite it claims it can launch To counter the 'US imperialists and the South Korean puppet villains' Science17 May 2023 | 13
Supernova peekaboo could provide clues to our universe's age Gravitational lensing technique offers hope in cracking cosmological conundrum Science16 May 2023 | 7
NASA freezes ice-hunting cubesat Moon mission for good after thruster fail Lunar Flashlight's innovative hardware worked ... other than its engines. Let's call it a draw Science15 May 2023 | 6
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment Science15 May 2023 | 419
Astronomers say they've seen the largest explosion yet – and we just had to talk to them The culprit: A supermassive black hole, a billion times more massive than the Sun, feeding on a giant gas cloud Science13 May 2023 | 27
Perseverance rover shows up Curiosity with discovery of Martian water park Latest snaps have NASA rethinking scale of rivers on the Red Planet Science12 May 2023 | 23
Microsoft signs up to buy electricity produced by fusion, perhaps in 2028 How complicated can fusion be, really? Science12 May 2023 | 18
NASA tests bot built to slither across, and beneath, alien worlds' ice Video Wheels come off plan to explore Enceladus – in a good way Science11 May 2023 | 9
The Hubble Space Telescope is sinking! Two startups want to save it for free But it's up to NASA to approve a rescue mission. Cue Aerosmith Science11 May 2023 | 27
This upstart is selling tickets for a SpaceX trip to the world's first private space station 30 days with three other people in a double-width shipping container built by a crypto billionaire. What's not to like? Science10 May 2023 | 19
Star Fomalhaut has dusty little secret – two more debris belts and a potential planetary party Nearby system was thought to have an exoplanet, but that was wrong. Now NASA says there may be multiple Science09 May 2023 | 5
China lands mysterious reusable spacecraft after 276-day trek Asia In Brief PLUS: Smartphone sales slump in India, China; Singapore's Temasek denies crypto investment; Dyson's new battery plant; and more Science08 May 2023 | 25
Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and will be one for the ages Dense debris left by Halley's Comet more than 3k years ago will produce more than 100 fireballs per hour Science05 May 2023 | 19
Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets Young mother only 10 million years old appears to have twins Science05 May 2023 | 21
Four out of five Uranus moons likely to have ocean under crust A preview of what Uranus Orbiter and Probe might find in the 2040s Science05 May 2023 | 33
Ten-day optical burst shows star eating giant planet, scientists say Twelve-year interaction ended with a bang Science04 May 2023 | 10
I've seen things you wouldn't believe, like an atom about to photosynthesize Paper details previously unknown step in process of converting light energy to chemical energy Science04 May 2023 | 21
Universe-mapping Euclid satellite arrives in US ahead of July launch Neither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space Science03 May 2023 | 9
Saturn's rings are shrinking and boffins will use the Webb 'scope to find out why They go down, down, down, with the burning pull of gravity ... or do they? Science03 May 2023 | 16
Eco warriors sue FAA over Starship fallout, claim watchdog is lost in space NEPA was violated by letting SpaceX do its own impact study, suit alleges Science02 May 2023 | 29
How Sandia hopes to accelerate US hypersonic weapons development You want this to go faster? OK, send in the contractors. That'll do the trick Science01 May 2023 | 10
Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor But don't toss out your silicon chips quite yet Science01 May 2023 | 51
Space: The final frontier, or the next venture capital gold rush Book review Ashlee Vance's When the Heavens Went on Sale paints an inside view of orbital startups Science01 May 2023 | 3
China's Mars rover finds signs of 'modern' water Asia In Brief AWS adds Korean support; Singtel creates InfraCo; Philippines SIM registration drive extended Science01 May 2023 | 4
Ashlee Vance spills the beans on the secret exciting life of space startups Interview Reg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more Science29 Apr 2023 | 10
ESA's Jupiter-bound Juice spacecraft has a sticky problem with its radar Time to shake, rattle, and roll the probe to remove pesky antenna pin Science29 Apr 2023 | 29
NASA tweaks Voyager 2's power supply to avoid another sensor shutdown By redirecting energy from probe's voltage regulator, NASA buys itself another three years Science27 Apr 2023 | 54
Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test Tokamak Energy off to Albuquerque desert to douse kit in radiation Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week27 Apr 2023 | 10
Just what the universe needs right now: A black hole with wind Gusts associated with M87 accretion flow surprises scientists peering into massive ring-like structure Science27 Apr 2023 | 18
China space agency reckons Zhurong Mars rover has probably been done in by dust Hopes it might wake during the Martian solstice, but not with much confidence Science27 Apr 2023 | 4
US watchdog grounds SpaceX Starship after that explosion Musk loyalists said launch wasn't a failure. Tell that to folks, wildlife covered in dust, ash, debris Science26 Apr 2023 | 157
Elizabeth Holmes is not going to prison – for the moment Yes, launch another appeal, that'll do the trick Science26 Apr 2023 | 47
First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence Comms lost to Hakuto-R after apparent crash landing Science25 Apr 2023 | 18
NASA InSight lander spills the beans on Mars' core The lander might be dead, but its scientific legacy lives on Science25 Apr 2023 | 8
China joins US and Europe in considering 3D-printed Moon bases Chang'e 8 missions will check whether regolith harbors appropriate materials Science25 Apr 2023 | 2
Balloon-borne telescope returns first photos in search for dark matter Helium is way cheaper than rocket fuel, and the pictures are just as good if you get high enough Science25 Apr 2023 | 45
NASA solar satellite burns up over the Sahara desert Goodbye RHESSI, thanks for all the data Science22 Apr 2023 | 9
Boffins think they've decoded mysterious 819-day Mayan calendar Letting the calendar cycle for 45 years gives each planet a chance to complete a synodic cycle Science21 Apr 2023 | 43
Hyundai to develop a Moon rover (to launch, not because the roads are so bad down here) Japan's Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, are already pondering what it takes to make a MoonMobile Science21 Apr 2023 | 11
Pentagon shoots down UFO rumors but says 650 cases are still pending Has found no evidence of alien tech or objects that defy the known laws of physics Science21 Apr 2023 | 18
SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball 'Rapid unscheduled disassembly' could apply to much of Musk's world Science20 Apr 2023 | 234
Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes But Dr Rachid Yazami, one of the key minds behind lithium-ion batteries, thinks this could be hot air Science20 Apr 2023 | 146
Metal-rich stars inhibit chances of life on their planets They give off less UV, but more is absorbed by their planets’ atmospheres, boffins tell life hunters Science19 Apr 2023 | 21
ESA's Aeolus wind-measuring satellite takes terminal trip into Earth's atmosphere Weather forecasting mission to end on April, but Aeolus-2 is on the drawing board Science19 Apr 2023 | 3
Smallsats + solar sails = Photos of exoplanets at 1970s digital camera resolution Sundiver spacecraft could snap the first surface pics using solar lens Science19 Apr 2023 | 54
Stem cells to be made on orbiting space station to test micrograv manufacturing Kinda feels like living in the future we thought we'd have, for a change Science18 Apr 2023 | 3
SpaceX feels the pressure, scraps first orbital launch of Starship Another attempt is possible later this week, depending on how the troubleshooting goes Science17 Apr 2023 | 37
Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight, 45 more than NASA planned And sets a Martian height record for good measure Science17 Apr 2023 | 33
Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars And you thought patching your production environment was stressful Science15 Apr 2023 | 52
ESA's Juice blasts off to squeeze secrets from Jupiter's moons Few orbital boosts and we'll get the snaps in eight years Science14 Apr 2023 | 6
Boffins rewrite the book on how Earth's oceans developed You don't need alien asteroids, you just need a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid hot magma Science13 Apr 2023 | 33
Launching soon: ESA's Juice to probe Jupiter's moons for signs of possible life Feature We speak to professor deeply involved in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission Science13 Apr 2023 | 31
Goddard Space Flight Center's new boss swears in on holy Pale Blue Dot Some brilliant toys await Dr Makenzie Lystrup in mega space facility Science12 Apr 2023 | 15
Theranos founder Holmes ordered to jail after appeal snub Decade or so in the clink begins April 27 Science11 Apr 2023 | 67
Starlink opens final frontier for radio astronomers Opinion Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? Science11 Apr 2023 | 37