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Never mind the White House. At least we know who's going to Spaceport America. Virgin Galactic to fling ship into space again

Also: Another delay for SpaceX, Artemis I gets its fairings and Kelly twin prepares for a lengthy mission in politics

06 Nov 20:04 | 3

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America's democracy on the brink, Brexit looming, climate crashing... when better to get the first fast radio burst from our own galaxy?

'u ok m8?'

06 Nov 06:32 | 34

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Rocket Lab to equip 'Return to Sender' with parachutes amid plans to catch an Electron booster with a helicopter

Successful recovery would make it the first and only reusable orbital-class small launch system

05 Nov 19:00 | 7

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Whoa, humans have been hanging out and doing science stuff in freaking space aboard the ISS for 20 years

Orbital lab emerges from teens to an uncertain future. How very 2020

04 Nov 12:23 | 14

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How's this for the ultimate gaming achievement? Half-Life 2's Gnome Chompski is going to space – in real life

Drag racing in orbit with Rocket Lab

03 Nov 16:28 | 3

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H₂? Oh! New water-splitting technique pushes progress of green hydrogen

It's really dope. Yep it's an energy-efficient process kicked off by gadolinium-doped cerium dioxide

03 Nov 13:01 | 118

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Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

Australian antenna upgrade appears to have worked, should be ready to help with imminent Mars landings

03 Nov 04:58 | 64

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No need for more asteroid-blasting attempts, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has more than enough space dirt

There may be carbon, water, clay, perhaps even platinum, gold in them hills

30 Oct 23:12 | 24

In brief

Remember, remember, the 14th of November (if you're an astronaut): NASA names the date for Crew-1 mission to ISS

Also: ESA looks to the Moon, RocketLab launches another 10 sats, and SpaceX probably thinks that's cute

30 Oct 10:45 | 7

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Trouble at Skull-Top Ridge: ESA boffins use data wizardry to figure out Philae probe's second touchdown site

Comets: Crunchy on the outside... frothy on the inside?

28 Oct 18:25 | 11

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Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope

Fly me to the Moon, let me swim among the stars

26 Oct 21:32 | 70

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NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop

Collector is leaking regolith, sparking swift stash plan

26 Oct 06:45 | 24

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ISS air leakage fixed in time for crew handover, thanks to floating teabag

Also: Starlinks soar but GPS stays grounded, NASA names first Virgin Galactic flier

22 Oct 10:55 | 61

Video

We know there are a lot of, er, distractions right now but NASA's got some sweet video of its asteroid rubble raiser

Incredible scoop, read all about it , read all about it

22 Oct 07:48 | 50

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FYI: NASA appears to have scooped dirt from an asteroid 200 million miles away and plans to bring it back home

Would be nice if civilization could hold out for 2023 to see its return

21 Oct 01:10 | 62

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Everybody's going to the Moon (and Mars): The Reg chats to ESA about 10-year plans and sending Tim back to space

Agency's 'nauts to ride in US commercial crew capsules 'going forward'

20 Oct 08:30 | 14

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If you're feeling down, know that we've just buried a heat sensor in an alien planet. If NASA can get through Mars soil, we can get through 2020

US space agency has a mole – and that's a good thing, finally

18 Oct 22:48 | 25

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Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure

Lead scientist explains all to El Reg: 'Pressure is the most versatile parameter to create such conditions'

15 Oct 05:35 | 61

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Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines

What she in lacks in ethics, she more than makes up for in persistence

14 Oct 21:33 | 145

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Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we're still picking up X-rays. We don't know why

'Discovering a new type of celestial source is very exciting' lead astroboffin tells us

14 Oct 06:54 | 42

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Never mind the White House. At least we know who's going to Spaceport America. Virgin Galactic to fling ship into space again

America's democracy on the brink, Brexit looming, climate crashing... when better to get the first fast radio burst from our own galaxy?

Rocket Lab to equip 'Return to Sender' with parachutes amid plans to catch an Electron booster with a helicopter

Whoa, humans have been hanging out and doing science stuff in freaking space aboard the ISS for 20 years

How's this for the ultimate gaming achievement? Half-Life 2's Gnome Chompski is going to space – in real life

H2? Oh! New water-splitting technique pushes progress of green hydrogen

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

No need for more asteroid-blasting attempts, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has more than enough space dirt

Remember, remember, the 14th of November (if you're an astronaut): NASA names the date for Crew-1 mission to ISS

Trouble at Skull-Top Ridge: ESA boffins use data wizardry to figure out Philae probe's second touchdown site

Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope

NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop

ISS air leakage fixed in time for crew handover, thanks to floating teabag

We know there are a lot of, er, distractions right now but NASA's got some sweet video of its asteroid rubble raiser

FYI: NASA appears to have scooped dirt from an asteroid 200 million miles away and plans to bring it back home

Everybody's going to the Moon (and Mars): The Reg chats to ESA about 10-year plans and sending Tim back to space

If you're feeling down, know that we've just buried a heat sensor in an alien planet. If NASA can get through Mars soil, we can get through 2020

Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure

Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines

Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we're still picking up X-rays. We don't know why

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South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet

US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA

BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture, observers grumble about the HTML

Deloitte's 'Test your Hacker IQ' site fails itself after exposing database user name, password in config file

Remember when the keyboard was the computer? You can now relive those heady days with the Raspberry Pi 400

Google reCAPTCHA service under the microscope: Questions raised over privacy promises, cookie use

Suspended sentence for bank IT worker who hacked his boss's webcam because he didn't get a payrise

Now that's a Finnish-ing move: Finland offers free 90-day tryout of Helsinki tech scene with childcare thrown in

Supermassive black hole turns unlucky star into spaghetti

Boeing Starliner commander Christopher Ferguson bows out of first crewed mission due to family commitments

EFF off: Privacy Badger disables by default anti-tracking safeguard that can be abused to track you online

A 73bn-kg, skyscraper-size chocolate creme egg spinning fast enough to eventually explode – it's asteroid Bennu

It's in their DNA: Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to pioneers of the CRISPR gene-editing tool

SpaceX breaks run of scrubs with Starlink launch: Darth Musk finds your lack of faith in on-time launches... disturbing

Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics for their black-hole breakthroughs

Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 'superhabitable' exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life

ISS? More like HISS, am I right? Space station air leakage narrowed down to Russia's Zvezda module

Since the EU won't share all its toys, UK Space Agency fires up fund to support more international collaboration

Looking for a new hobby to kill the COVID-19 blues? Join NASA's Planet Patrol to hunt for alien worlds

Casting a teleport spell is out of the question? Next Falcon-powered 'naut trip to space station set for Halloween

Good news: Euro sat spots liquid pools on Mars. Bad news: Under ice, saltier than someone who put last penny into a failed crypto biz

Square Kilometre Array signs off on construction plans – UK last holdout before building phase begins

Not the Southern Rail of the stars: Rocket Lab plans frequent, regular trips to Venus from 2023

FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth

Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

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