Oct 22, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous AI, Space
The award funds the development of AstraSense, an onboard software suite engineered to provide operational self-awareness by detecting component degradation, diagnosing emerging faults, and predicting potential failures before they compromise mission execution. The...
Oct 15, 2026 | Featured, Space
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has officially traveled 28.10 miles—farther across another planet’s surface than any other vehicle in history. Not only that, but the six-wheeled science lab accomplished this impressive feat almost entirely autonomously and in barely a...
Oct 8, 2026 | Featured, Space
Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station in a scenic splashdown Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast. The SpaceX crew capsule deployed its giant parachutes high above the ocean to slow its descent,...
Sep 23, 2026 | Featured, Space
The California-based asteroid-mining company has booked its Autonomy-1 mission on the first-ever flight of Stoke Space’s Nova Pathfinder rocket, which is scheduled to launch in early 2027. As its name suggests, Autonomy-1 will operate independently, thanks to...
Sep 15, 2026 | Metals, Space
Scientists have used an X-ray detector on a sounding rocket, a type of research rocket that flies to the edge of space, then returns to Earth within minutes, to document metal dendrites—the branching structures that form as liquid metal cools—forming in microgravity...
Sep 10, 2026 | Featured, Space
NASA’s long-distance spacecraft-calling network just got a boost. The Deep Space Network (DSN), best known for communicating with distant spacecraft such as Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons, added a 114-foot (34-meter) radio-frequency antenna in California,...
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