image: Space robots play essential roles in the construction, operation, and maintenance of space stations. Target tracking algorithms for space robots need to filter noise for precise functioning. H… [+7155 chars]
Get ready for space hydroponics. Interstellar Salad Earthly space travelers have been trying to perfect orbital botany for a while now. Stable, sustainable off world agricultural practices are need… [+1754 chars]
Rice University physicists are available to discuss the July 4 anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery and the recent restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for a third round of experiments. T… [+3340 chars]
Roger N. Shepard, the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor, Emeritus, in Stanfords School of Humanities and Sciences, known for his groundbreaking research on mental imagery, died May 30 at his home in Tucson,… [+8178 chars]
SpaceX's massive Starship project was on the move last week, as its "Booster 7" Super Heavy rocket prototype moved to its South Texas test pad Thursday (June 23). The Starship rocket and its Super H… [+3190 chars]
A stream of supercharged particles from the sun recently crashed into Earth with no prior warning. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)Scientists were recently left scratching their heads… [+3682 chars]
The emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) – the most potent greenhouse gases – into the atmosphere from African lakes are reassessed in a study undertaken by the Laboratory of Chemical … [+4312 chars]
Astronomers identified Comet C/2017 K2 back in 2017, and now the extremely old comet is making its way into our inner solar system. Researchers believe that Comet C/2017, or Comet K2, originally cam… [+1803 chars]
NASA is outsourcing the job of Martian cloud hunting to the public. You can take part online, whenever you want. The more Mars cloud detections the agency has, the better our chances of solving one … [+4951 chars]
ByJet Propulsion LaboratoryJune 28, 2022 NASAs Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this area at the edge of a location nicknamed Yellowknife Bay. Credit: NASA/JPL-Calte… [+6960 chars]
Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death - a stellar explosion called a supernova - but emerged from it bri… [+3233 chars]
It has long been known that when salt is kept in a humid environment, it absorbs water, dissolving some of the salt and making it clump. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered that water vapor i… [+3312 chars]
