space exploration

We've had a long-standing fascination with robots. From the Terminator to Transformers to Wall-E and the Iron Giant, they've cared for us (Rosey on The Jetson's), protected us (Robocop), and threatened our very existence (Hal, the Sentinels…

MUNICH, JUNE 2024 Panasonic Industry Europe is currently supporting a development program by young students at ETH Zurich to develop a robot that will be used to explore asteroids. The main challenge to overcome for the SpaceHopper program…

The United States Space Force Commercial Space Strategy was released in early April. It included a question regarding the U.S. government buying commercial, foreign-made, off-the-shelf products rather than investing solely in developing and…

As we set our sights on returning to the Moon and establishing a more permanent human presence, a critical yet often overlooked challenge emerges: how do we keep time on the lunar surface? The United States is taking a proactive step to…

International researchers studied galaxy NGC 4383 in the nearby Virgo cluster and found a gas outflow so large that it would take 20,000 years for light to travel from one side to the other. The discovery is published in the journal Monthly…

NASA and Lockheed launched the Juno space probe in 2011 as part of the New Frontiers program. It entered Jupiter's orbit on July 4th, 2016, to peek beneath the planet's dense clouds. Now, in its extended mission, the probe is taking a…

A team of scientists is creating robots based on the movement of ancient animals, including pleurocystitids, a sea creature from 500 million years ago. Richard Desatnik, a Carnegie Mellon University scientist, collaborated with European…

There’s a new technology under test at the Redwire Corp. facility in Longmont, CO. NASA hit a key technology milestone at the new facility with a successful deployment of one of four solar sail quadrants.   NASA considers solar sail…

Japan is now the fifth nation to make a soft lunar landing. Its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) successfully landed on the moon, but its solar panel failed to generate power, posing a challenge. According to the Japan…

As part of the 2023 Holidays at the White House, First Lady Jill Biden debuted the first-ever White House Advent Calendar and is celebrating with this new image from the JWST. In it, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams against the…