And not even close to mapping it all Astronomers have mapped over three billion objects shimmering in the Milky Way, providing the most detailed survey of our galaxy yet.…
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Lees meerLHS 475 b is the same size as Earth, rocky, but hotter, and so close to its star it orbits in 2 days NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed its first exoplanet: a rocky, hot world with a diameter 99 percent the size of Earth that completes …
Lees meerSecond time this week a satellite-ferrying vehicle has failed ABL Space Systems, a US rocket startup, failed to launch its RS1 payload during the startup's first-ever flight attempt this week.…
Lees meerThe coolant-deprived vessel that got them there will return to Earth alone Russian space agency Roscosmos has decided to send another Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station to rescue crew stranded by a coolant leak in their return ride. …
Lees meerFirst sat launch from UK soil experienced ‘anomaly’ after entering space but did not deploy payloads Virgin Orbit, the Beardy-Branson-backed outfit that slings satellites into space from a 747, has failed in its first attempt to launch from the UK.…
Lees meerSouth Korean authorities warned locals to avoid falling space junk, which probably splashed down harmlessly A defunct weather-monitoring satellite came crashing back to Earth over the weekend, and reentered the atmosphere over the Bering Sea, the US…
Lees meerThe poles have ice but it's freezing up there, so why not grind gems for cocktails? A study of old data from the Curiosity rover is causing scientists to reassess their belief that Mars' relatively temperate equatorial region is devoid of water. …
Lees meerVirgin Orbit set to help UK county put pasty-munching image behind it In what is believed to be the first satellite launch from European soil, a hefty Boeing 747 is set to take to the skies from a regional airport on Cornwall's north coast tonight a…
Lees meerZhurongs don't make a right and suggest the mission may not have survived winter China’s Zhurong Mars rover may be struggling to emerge from sleep mode, a feat it was expected to accomplish around December 26th.…
Lees meerDark deeds are no way to close a deal Who, Me? Happy New Year, gentle readers, and welcome once again to Who, Me? – The Reg's regular roundup of rapscallions and rascals committing tech atrocities and (sometimes) getting away with it. This week it'…
Lees meerSo that must be why the Russians might have hacked the DoE, right? In his cult classic "Ender's Game", Orson Scott Card imagined a world in which Earth's brightest, and tragically youngest, tacticians could command armies across vast distances insta…
Lees meerMaybe humans could learn a thing or two about how modern medicine can prevent the spread of disease Honeybees are fascinating. They make Winnie the Pooh's meal of choice, they perform about 80 percent of pollination worldwide, and one-third of the g…
Lees meerNew family of carbon super-structures discovered for futurologists to fizz over Graphene, that much-hyped super-material yet to transform industry, has competition on the block in the form of a related 3D carbon structure made up of linked balls.…
Lees meerMakes the repetitive strain injury you got from hours of pipetting all worth it, hey lab scientists? Far from an era of accelerating innovation and disruption, our current times manifest evidence of a slowing of discoveries and developments that cha…
Lees meerNo staff and no equipment ready after over a decade of nuclear denial Japan's decision to reignite its nuclear power industry is facing serious setbacks: 11 years of prohibition has led to a shortage of engineers, a lack of students training to fill…
Lees meerAll right, C/2022 E3, we know what you're thinking – and we can explain everything, kinda Get a look while you can: a comet that last graced Earth's sky tens of thousands of years ago is back, and may now be visible to the naked eye – or at least th…
Lees meerBeijing could dent Yank efforts to colonize Moon if it gets there first NASA Administrator Bill Nelson believes China could control territory and resources on the Moon if it lands astronauts and builds critical infrastructure before the US.…
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