In 2024, NASA awarded Rocket Lab another contract to study alternative concepts for the Mars Sample Return, which aimed to bring samples collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth. That mission ...
Nasa's Perseverance rover has completed five years on Mars and received a new autonomous navigation system. This technology allows the rover to pinpoint its location without help from Earth.
NASA JPL’s Mars Global Localisation lets Perseverance pinpoint its position to 25cm in minutes, boosting autonomy.
A new books tells the stories of scientists ‘ridiculed, exiled, and Imprisoned for being right.’ Nuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science at the University of Oxford and writes the Stories of ...
NASA uses a portable microplate reader on the International Space Station to study bone loss, providing real-time biological data for astronaut health and space biology research.
An 8-year-old boy caught everyone's attention when he took the stage at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. With that, Ranvir Singh Sachdeva became the youngest keynote speaker at this ...
NASA has committed to running two competing landing architectures side by side for its Mars Sample Return mission, a strategy ...
On September 25, 2025, Google DeepMind quietly released Gemini Robotics 1.5. To the casual observer, it may have seemed like ...
Microorganisms aboard the International Space Station have extracted dozens of metals from actual asteroid fragments, a result that strengthens the case for biology-driven mining on the Moon, Mars, ...
Several National Historic Chemical Landmarks are referenced in the ‘ACS sesquicentennial’ crossword puzzle and in these annotations. They include the New York City site where the society was founded ...
Yellowstone’s predators battle it out, one of the earliest veggie-eaters found in Nova Scotia, COVID is disappearing in animals and how genes affect our lifespan.
NASA is targeting March 6 as the earliest possible launch date for the Artemis II mission to the moon following a successful ...