space exploration

Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) scored a first in modular robotics development with an origami robot that can change shape, move around, and interact with objects and people. Inspired by the digital world of…

Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system. With the recent discovery of 62 new spatial bodies in the system, the ringed planet now has a total of 145 moons, beating Jupiter’s 92, which also increased in February with …

Centipedes have no problems negotiating rugged terrain. They do so by wiggling body parts and limbs. When the wiggling stops, so do they. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using centipede movement to develop a…

If you're an AI expert drawn to everything about space, here's a challenge for you. The Ariel Data Challenge 2023 is inviting AI and machine learning experts from industry and academia to help astronomers understand exoplanets. Dr. Ingo…

Scientists studying a nearby protostar discovered gaseous water in the star's circumstellar disk, supporting the theory that water on Earth is older than our Sun. The team used ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in…

Crewed and uncrewed space flight doesn't create a large percentage of the Earth's carbon emissions. In 2018, Everyday Astronaut reported that rocket launches made up just 0.0000059% of the world's carbon emissions. To contrast, the energy…

A team of international scientists discovered a new ring system relatively nearby. Quaoar, a dwarf planet, orbits beyond Neptune and is challenging current ring formation theories.  The team used HiPERCAM, an extremely sensitive…

A research team used the James Webb Space Telescope data to pinpoint the precise location of what they call the “engine” of the merging galaxy. They published their results in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The team at the Hiroshima…

NASA's InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California eventually could no longer contact NASA's InSight Mars lander. NASA had…

Rice University astronomers reviewed the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and saw telltale signs from two dozen previously unseen young stars approximately 7,500 light years from Earth. The published research provides…