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Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes -- Airline maker accused of not realising what controversial MCAS system could do

3 days ago

NASA: We need commercial rockets! SLS: Oh no you don't! -- Panto season comes early as the commercial threat focuses the minds of managers

3 days ago

Geek's Guide - What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters - Geek's Guide to Britain - Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery - | 99

12 hours ago

'Naut trio successfully dock at ISS after Soyuz rocket goes all the way -- Hague, Ovchinin, Koch arrived at their new home this morning

7 days ago

Yes! Pack your bags! Blossoming planetary system strikingly similar to ours found by boffins -- It may have an asteroid belt, worlds similar to Earth and Neptune – and only 470 light years away

7 days ago

Forget that rare-earth element crunch – we can now just extract them from industrial waste -- It's a match made in heaven for erm, glucunobacter and phosphogypsum

7 days ago

Brit rocket wranglers get Reaction they wanted after rattling SABRE -- Euro space agencies approve air-breathing engine testing

8 days ago

NASA admin: What if we switched one delayed SLS for two commercial launchers? -- Bridenstine reckons the agency should try sticking to its dates

8 days ago

Never thought we'd ever utter these words, but... can anyone recommend a spin doctor for NASA? -- Boffins baffled by Bennu: We're due to visit asteroid but it's whirling faster and faster

8 days ago

Boffins discover new dust clouds in the Solar System, Mercury has a surprisingly filthy ring -- Venus also turns up a number of undiscovered orbital partners

9 days ago

Crew Dragon returns to dry land as NASA promises new space station for the Moon -- Upgrades postponed for NASA's big rocket budget request in this week's round-up

10 days ago

Astroboffins spot hefty pair swinging together. What? Um, we're talking about record-breaking massive binary stars... -- What did you think we meant?

10 days ago

Science - 'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer - Video - And they may be injected into your body one day - | 54

9 days ago

Thought you'd seen everything there is to Ultima Thule? Check this out: IN STEREO! -- 3D glasses required... or you can try squinting at the screen

14 days ago

Champagne corks undocked as SpaceX brings the Crew Dragon back to Earth -- Cuddly Earth to stay in orbit. For now.

14 days ago

You've been dying to know. Here's the answer: The Milky Way tips the cosmic scales at '1.5tr' times mass of the Sun -- Still looks slim thank to Spanx-like dark matter

14 days ago

One-time Mars InSight Lander engineer scores $1.5m redress over whistleblower sacking -- ManTech was using Lockheed Martin files illicitly, court told

16 days ago

Canada has lunar dreams as Germany worries about what lies beneath -- Space roundup -- And in Israel, a funny thing happened on the way to the Moon

16 days ago

Real life sci-fi: Massive exoplanet booted out of home by binary parents – then slipped back inside by passing friendly stars -- Cosmic soap operas may explain why weird alien objects end up in our backyard

16 days ago

Hurrah for Apollo 9: It has been 50 years since 'nauts first took a Lunar Module out for a spin -- About as welcome as a what in a spacesuit?

17 days ago

Official science: Massive asteroids are so difficult to destroy, Bruce Willis wouldn't stand a chance -- Videos -- 'Only a matter of time before these questions go from being academic to defining our response to a major threat'

17 days ago

Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clink

1 day ago

Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies

1 day ago

Brekkie TV host Lorraine Kelly wins IR35 ruling against HMRC, adds fuel to freelance techies' ire over tax reforms

10 hours ago

Brit Parliament online orifice overwhelmed by Brexit bashers

10 hours ago

SpaceX Crew Dragon: Launched and docked. Now, about that splashdown... -- Champagne remains on ice until Demo-1 is bobbing about in the Atlantic

18 days ago

Boffins put the FUN into fungus by rigging yeast to squirt out the active ingredients in cannabis -- Greener than growing green, Berkeley biologists claim

21 days ago

Danger mouse! Potent rodents 'see' infrared after eyeballs injected with nanoparticles -- Maybe it'll make its way to humans in the army one day...

21 days ago

Today's good news is that whoever has to clean up Solar System will have an easy job: Lack of small debris in Kuiper belt -- None of that tiny space rubble to sweep away, judging by snaps of Pluto's acne spots

21 days ago

Spooky! Solar System's Planet NINE could be discovered in the next NINE years (plus one to six), say astroboffins -- Where is that elusive super-Earth hiding?

22 days ago

It was the best of times, it was the WFIRST of times: How NASA's next exoplanet hunter could find 1,000+ worlds -- Boffins predict success rate of telescope's gravitational microlensing tech

23 days ago

Science - SpaceX's Demo-1 green lit for launch as Virgin enjoys a brief ménage à trois aboard VSS Unity - Roundup - Plus: Up close and personal with Ultima Thule and Fregat saves the day - | 10

18 days ago

In a galaxy far, far away, aliens may have eight-letter DNA – like the kind NASA-backed boffins just crafted -- This may be proof that ET doesn't need the same DNA chemicals we need

25 days ago

Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has got the horn for space rock Ryugu – a sampling horn, that is -- Asteroid bits collected. Next step, to hadouken a crater

1 month ago

Lunar lander's brief jaunt will place Israel as fourth country to make soft landing on Moon -- If it works. Comms sat also along for ride, but there are loads already so...

1 month ago

Eggheads want YOU to name Jupiter's five newly found moons ‒ and yeah, not so fast with Moony McMoonface -- Looks like someone's thought ahead this time

1 month ago

Deton-8. Blastobox-3. Demo-1... One of these is the name of a SpaceX crew capsule test now due to launch in March -- As experts worry about the potential for rapid unscheduled in-flight rocket disassembly

1 month ago

NASA boffins show Moon water supply could – er, this can't be right? – come from the Sun -- All rocks can produce water if irradiated in the right way

1 month ago

How do you solve a problem like Galileo? With a strap-on L-band payload, of course! -- Nigerian and Brit augmented boffinry could save billions

1 month ago

Science - Oldest white dwarf star catches amateur's eye – and its dusty ring leaves boffins baffled - Pic - J0207 is estimated to be a mere three-billion years old and just 145 light years away - | 17

25 days ago

Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation -- 15 gallons of uranium ore left in the visitors' center for 18 years

1 month ago

Science - Surrey Uni mans the space harpoons, and NASA buys more seats on Russian rockets - Roundup - UK Space spends £18m on internet sat tech - | 24

1 month ago

How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way -- And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth

1 month ago

NASA's Dawn Mission receives nod in memory of Apollo 13 'naut for asteroid belt derring-do -- Dead probe swinging around Ceres wins Swigert Award

1 month ago