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Vulture gets claws on Lego's latest Apollo nostalgia-fest -- Hands On -- Plastic-fantastic Moon shenanigans for Reg hack

3 hours ago

Buckminsterfullerene sounds like the next UK Prime Minister but trust us, it's in fact the largest molecule yet found in interstellar space -- Tally ho, you can call me Buckyballs, what what

5 hours ago

We've Falcon caught it! SpaceX finally nets a fairing half after a successful Heavy launch -- Although third time unlucky as the centre stage enjoys an explosive landing

1 day ago

Sputnik? No, comrade, this is Spunknik: Frozen sperm manages to survive zero-grav in this totally realistic test -- May mean humans can travel to and infect alien worlds using cryotanks of reproductive cells

1 day ago

One goes up, one stays on the ground and one gets ready: It's a week in space -- Roundup -- A trio of heavy lifters in rocket boffinry

1 day ago

Curioser and curioser: Little Mars rover sniffs out highest ever levels of methane -- He who smelt it dealt it?

1 day ago

Bollocks or brutal truth: Do smart-mobes make us grow skull horns? We take a closer look at boffins' startling claims -- Phone bone grown from shoddy body tone, it's shown

5 days ago

Look, we've tried, but we just can't write this headline without saying boffins have probed Uranus's cold ring -- Cluster of rock and ice a sweltering 77K, we're told

5 days ago

The European Space Agency is going to visit a new comet in 2028. Which one? We haven't discovered it yet -- Let's hope it goes better than the Comet 67P mission, eh?

6 days ago

After years of listening, we've heard not a single peep out of any aliens, say boffins. You think you can do better? OK, here's 1PB of signals -- Massive data dump, code release for E.T. hunters

7 days ago

Science - What price the Moon? Tips from the past might save the present - Roundup - Also: The Bennu Thrill Show - coming to an asteroid near you - | 27

2 days ago

Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g -- But don't get too excited, it can't do much at the moment

8 days ago

Bonjour, mon chum! Québécois IT giant CGI snaps up freshly Irish Galileo botherer SCISYS -- Splashes £78.9m on IP, space smarts and general boffinry

11 days ago

Gonna be so cool when we finally get into space, float among the stars, work out every day, inject testosterone... -- Wait, wut?

12 days ago

2,500 years ago, these folks weren't cremated – but their funeral-goers were absolutely baked: Earliest evidence of pot smoking discovered -- Talk about a high profile discovery

13 days ago

Break out the poutine! SpaceX flings triple serving of Canadian satellites into orbit -- Next up, Falcon Heavy and thinking about those Crew Dragons for Bigelow

13 days ago

Hate your IT job? Sick of computers? Good news: An electronics-frying Sun superflare may hit 'in next 100 years' -- Bad news: Might actually be 1,000 years. And not even that devastating

14 days ago

Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater -- My God, it's full of... really dense metal?

14 days ago

Science - Inflatables, solids, strap-ons and riders – oh my, it's the week in space - Roundup - Also, decoding the Donald and opening up BEAM - | 17

13 days ago

NASA goes commercial, publishes price for trips to the ISS – and it'll be multi-millionaires only for this noAirBNB -- $22,500 a day to breathe, eat and exercise, $50 per GB for data, $11,250 to pee and sleep

16 days ago

Box shifting on the Moon? Lunar payloads on Amazon Prime -- Only the essentials: liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen and... cargo pants, maybe?

18 days ago

New twist in underworld of alleged code, data theft: Two, er, boffins accused of trying to steal, uh, a river model -- Pair said to have tried to take non-profit's Mississippi simulation blueprints

19 days ago

Barbie Girl was wrong? Life is plastic, it's not fantastic: We each ingest '121,000 pieces' of microplastics a year -- Worse news, there's more in alcohol than tap water

19 days ago

She's just a Cosmic Girl but UK.gov is dangling £20m to have Beardy Branson's 747 launch satellites from Cornwall -- Sends me into Newquay airspace when I see her pretty face

20 days ago

Bad news from science land: Fast-charging li-ion batteries may be quick to top up, but they're also quick to die -- Video -- Today in current affairs...

21 days ago

Science - Musk loves his Starlink sat constellation – but astroboffins are less than dazzled by them - The ruddy things are getting in the way of our radio telescopes! | 100

9 days ago

And now here's Tom on Jupiter with the weather: Thanks, Karen. Still a bit breezy on the Great Red Spot, but it's easing up -- Updated -- Astro-amateurs catch raging storm in a moment of shedding

21 days ago

Northrop Grumman has nozzle nightmare, Soyuz brushes off lightning, and updates on Crew Dragon 'anomaly' probe -- Roundup -- Also: 53 years since NASA first soft-landed on Moon

22 days ago

Bad news. Asteroid 1999 KW4 flew by, did not hit Earth killing us all. Good news: Another one, Didymos, is on the way -- Not due to whiz past, 5.9 million km away, until 2123. NASA still wants to crash a DART into it

21 days ago

Gaze in awe at the first ever movie of a solar eclipse from recording long thought lost forever -- Video -- Sadly no HD video back in 1900 but restoration has worked wonders

26 days ago

Neptune-sized oddball baffles astroboffins: It has a good atmosphere despite star-lashing -- First gas giant spotted in the so-called 'Neptunian Desert'

27 days ago

Chinese fireworks, Indian orbits, and NASA names Maxar as maker of its first Moon module -- Roundup -- Also, Boeing fires Starliner's rockets

29 days ago

Science - Third time's a charm? SpaceX hopes to launch 60 Starlink broadband sats into orbit tonight - Updated - At 13,620 kilograms, it's the heaviest payload yet for the Elon Musk-run biz - | 20

29 days ago

NASA boffins may just carve your name on a chip and send it to Mars if you ask nicely -- You probably won't ever get to go to space – but your name can

1 month ago

Tim Peake's Soyuz lands in London after jaunt around the UK -- No word if a trip through Manchester was scarier than atmospheric reentry

1 month ago

UK Space Agency cracks open its wallet, fishes out a paltry £2m for Brit plans to return to orbit -- Cash for horizontal launchers and PowerPoint slides

1 month ago

50 years ago: Apollo 10 takes an unplanned spin above the lunar surface – and sh!t gets sweary -- Part two -- Putting the 'blue' in blue moon

1 month ago

When two become one: 200 boffins contribute to first Ultima Thule paper -- Roundup -- China adds to Beidou constellation while India preps radar-imaging satellite

1 month ago

It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal' -- Part One -- Charlie Brown and Snoopy go to the Moon

1 month ago

Science - SpaceX takes a leaf from the Microsoft playbook and stands down Starlink for an update - Also: Repeated reboots to get a Windows 10 update installed? Just like the (not so) old days - | 14

1 month ago