Astrobotic has unveiled the flight model of its Peregrine lunar lander during a visit by top NASA and government officials to the company’s headquarters. The flight model, as opposed to earlier test… [+2025 chars]
Aeva® (NYSE: AEVA), a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, today announced that NASA’s Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) Inst… [+9815 chars]
(MENAFN- The Conversation) During the Antarctic summer, air temperatures get warm enough to melt snow and ice on the surface of the great ice sheets that make up around 99% of Antarctica. This mel… [+5155 chars]
After more than a year of accomplishments, NASA has extended flight operations for the Mars Innovation helicopter through September. The space agency’s $2.2 billion spacecraft touched down on Mars … [+3281 chars]
These pictures depict the magnificent wonders of our planet, yet, they weren't taken anywhere on Earth. Instead, they were captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station to chronicle t… [+3327 chars]
Researchers have developed a new measurement and imaging approach that can resolve nanostructures smaller than the diffraction limit of light without requiring any dyes or labels. The work represents… [+4820 chars]
Even more information can be gained from those pterosaur feathers. The study indicates they were fairly small, meaning that they weren't used to help the animal fly. Instead, the feathers could have … [+1242 chars]
MIT chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring, using a catalyst to add phosphorus to simple organic compounds called alkenes. Their re… [+5306 chars]
To get to the places where they are needed, immune cells not only squeeze through tiny pores. They even overcome wall-like barriers of tightly packed cells. Researchers at the Institute of Science an… [+5284 chars]
Of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve discovered, most of them closely orbit red dwarf stars. Part of this is because planets with short orbital periods are easier to find, but part of this is that re… [+3274 chars]
We're not going to stop saying it. The James Webb Space Telescope is going to change modern astronomy for keeps, in so many ways that it will outshine even the Hubble Space Telescope in scope and de… [+3887 chars]
After more than a year of accomplishments, NASA has extended flight operations for the Mars Innovation helicopter through September. The space agency’s $2.2 billion spacecraft touched down on Mars … [+3281 chars]