Jun 1, 2023 | Featured, Satellites, Space
A team of researchers want to put a wooden satellite into orbit. It’s not as outrageous as you might think. Results from a recent test aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which exposed different woods to the vacuum of space, have been...
May 18, 2023 | Solar, Space
Astronomers are using 100 newly found supermassive black holes as a laboratory for extreme physics experiments. These black holes are nicknamed ‘blazars’ because they are shooting explosive jets of matter and radiation directly at Earth. The...
May 11, 2023 | Robots, Space
NASA is testing a snake-like robot in hopes that it could one day look for life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the 220-pound and 13-foot-long machine is called EELS, or the Exobiology Extant Life...
May 4, 2023 | Featured, Robots, Space
In the early 2010s, a new trend in robotics began to emerge. Engineers started creating robotic versions of salamanders, dragonflies, octopuses, geckos, and clams — an ecosystem of biomimicry so diverse the Economist portrayed it as “Zoobotics.” And yet...
Apr 20, 2023 | Featured, Space
The most powerful rocket ever built put on quite a show during its debut space launch. With a mighty roar, the first-ever integrated Starship rocket soared toward space today (April 20) from SpaceX’s seaside Starbase facility at Boca Chica...
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