Stellar echoes, Venusian automatons and more gain NASA moonshot funding
NASA has announced the recipients of its most recent round of highly experimental projects it ...
NASA tests robotic tools to crack the surface of icy moons
While the Mars rovers are searching the red planet for water over the next decade, there are whole ...
ESA shows off sweet new renders of the Exomars 2020 rover
Late last year the European Space Agency doubled down on its Mars mission, dedicating half a b ...
MIT lab’s smart boots could keep astronauts on their feet
If you’ve ever worn a spacesuit during a moonwalk or EVA, and I know a lot of you have, you w ...
Origami-inspired radiator from NASA could change shape to warm or cool tiny satellites
The devices we’re sending into space are getting smaller and lighter, which means there&rsquo ...
Boeing shows off the spacesuit astronauts will wear on the Starliner
The commercial spaceflight industry is doing a great job creating new rockets, launch vehicles and ...
Moth eyes inspired the design of this hypersensitive camera
If you wanted to see in the dark, you could do worse than follow the example of moths, which have o ...
The International Space Station’s network bandwidth will be doubled by new upgrades
The internet connection on the International Space Station and other platforms in orbit is getting ...
Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom for computing advances
President Obama awarded the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freed ...
A robot learns to cope with the loss of an eye in an experiment carried out on the ISS
Humans are pretty good at ballparking distances, even with one eye closed — but it turns out ...