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Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn -- Bet you were expecting a rude ring pun here? Well, not today

14 hours ago

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit -- The poor cotton seedling froze to death as temperatures plunged during the lunar night

1 day ago

Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided... -- Third stage failure means atmospheric fireworks show

2 days ago

The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins -- Future Circular Collider hopes to rack up 100 tera electron Volts to probe physics

2 days ago

Science - China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere - Pic - Living in a box, living in a faraway box, I'm living in a box - | 55

6 hours ago

Spektr-R goes quiet, Dragon splashes down and SpaceX lays off -- Roundup -- Unfortunate SpaceX workers start a different sort of countdown

3 days ago

People say tabloid hacks are always looking for an angle. This time, they'd be right: Tilting disk of proto-planets spotted -- Only 45 parsecs away if you fancy a look up close

3 days ago

Computing boffins strip the fun out of satirical headlines -- Real or satire? Teaching machines to tell apart 'BP ready to resume oil drilling' and 'BP ready to resume oil spilling'

4 days ago

It's the weekend. We're out of puns for now. Just have a gander at China's Moon lander and robo-sidekick snaps, videos -- Pics and vid -- Not much fun back in the West for SpaceX, tho: Staff decimated

6 days ago

Q. How exactly do you test car seats? A. With this sweaty 'robutt' that twerks for days and days -- Vid -- Watch this game of moist mechanical musical chairs

6 days ago

SpaceX sends Iridium-8 into space while Musk flaunts his retro rocket -- The 1930s called. They'd like their silver Starship back

7 days ago

What's the fate of our Solar System? Boffins peer into giant crystal ball – ah, no, wait, that's our Sun in 10bn years -- 50-year theory finally confirmed by European space probe

7 days ago

Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free -- Updated -- Remote fix hoped for orbiting robo-eyeball

6 days ago

Typical! You wait ages for a fast radio burst from outer space, and suddenly 13 show up -- Canada CHIMES into search with new 'scope and lots of iron

8 days ago

What's 23 times the size of Earth, uncomfortably warm – and has astroboffins excited? -- Kepler's successor, TESS, turns up its first three exoplanets

9 days ago

Science - Fly me to the Moon, let me play among the stars. Do you think we could get another probe to land on Mars? Roundup - 2018 a cracker for spaceflight. Ignoring Galileo - | 9

8 days ago

Gyro failure fingered for sending Earth-gazing Digital Globe sat TITSUP (That's a total inability to snap usual pics) -- Two-year-old bird in safe mode

9 days ago

Killer superbugs in space... are something astronauts on orbiting science lab don't have to worry about right now -- Don't miss ISS's Star Spores: Return of the Fungi

9 days ago

Science - Chinese rover pootles about... on the far side of the friggin' MOON - Roundup - Plus: SpaceX gets back to some Falcon work - | 59

8 days ago

Dark matter's such a pushover: Baby stars can shove weird stuff around dwarf galaxies -- Mystery material 'a cold, collisionless fluid' apparently

14 days ago

SpaceX's Crew Dragon shows up at pad 39A, nearly 8 years after the last Shuttle left -- Musk's mighty missile erected but not yet engorged with fuel as engineers check it all fits

14 days ago

Forget 2019's tech biz takeovers, here's the mega-merger everyone's talking about: Milky Way and LMC, coming soon -- And by soon, we mean, two billion years

14 days ago

Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight -- Processor thrashed by GIMPS

15 days ago

New Horizons snaps finish buffering: Ultima Thule actually two dust bunnies that got snuggly 4.5 billion years ago -- We were wrong about the chicken drumstick, OK?

15 days ago

China's loose Chang'e: Probe lands on far side of the Moon in science first, says state media -- Chang'e 4 makes history with 'soft landing' on lunar surface

15 days ago

Boffins manage to keep graphene qubits 'quantum coherent' for all of 55... nanoseconds -- Doesn't sound very long, but it could have big implications for quantum computing

16 days ago

New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick? -- We'll have a better idea when fresh 2014 MU69 snaps look less like Minecraft

16 days ago

Crystal ball gazers declare that Windows 10 has finally overtaken Windows 7 -- At last! The pretender to the throne swipes the crown

16 days ago

An upset tummy and a sphincter-loosening blackout: Lunar spaceflight is all glamour -- It is 50 years since Apollo 8 took the first humans to the moon

25 days ago

50 years ago: NASA blasts off the first humans to experience a lunar close encounter -- The previous Saturn V didn't go so well, but you guys will be fine. Trust us

28 days ago

Science - Scrubtastic end to 2018 as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arianespace all opt for another day on Earth - Roundup - But spare a thought for 'nauts coming home in punctured Soyuz - | 12

29 days ago

Brexit-dodging SCISYS Brits find Galileo joy in Dublin -- UK space specialist's holding company ups sticks for €11.2m

1 month ago

Happy Christmas! Bloodhound SSC refuelled by Yorkshire business chap -- Yuletide cheer for Wing Commander Andy Green and the team

1 month ago

Astroboffins spy a rare exoplanet evaporating before their eyes -- *Okay so it will be here for another billion years or so but it's shrinking faster than normal

1 month ago

Virgin Galactic test flight reaches space for the first time, lugging NASA cargo in place of tourists -- SpaceShipTwo goes faster and higher than ever before

1 month ago

Phew, galactic accident helps boffins explain dark matter riddle -- Texan-led team find ancient oddity that's full of the stuff

1 month ago

Hole-y ship: ISS 'nauts take a wander to crack Soyuz driller whodunnit -- In Soviet Russia, comrade find small hole by making much bigger hole

1 month ago

Supernovae may explain mass extinctions of marine animals 2.6 million years ago -- Deadly radiation bouncing around could have killed off animals in the Pliocene era

1 month ago

Boffins build bugged bees bearing backpacks -- Bees harvest data, but would be more fun if they had lasers

1 month ago

OSIRIS-REx space probe catches a whiff of water on asteroid Bennu -- But how Earth ended up with all its water is still a mystery

1 month ago