The first-ever mission to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche aims to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky bodies in our solar system.
With a launch readiness date set for Thursday, Oct. 12, NASA's Psyche spacecraft will travel 2.2 billion miles from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to a metal-rich asteroid in the far reaches of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Astronomers have discovered a seemingly impossible planet around a giant star some 530 light-years away.
Based on measurements of how Baekdu is oscillating, the researchers have determined that the star has already undergone a phase of expansion and contraction, one that would have seen it grow well beyond Halla's orbit.
Imagine grasping a heavy object, like a pipe wrench, with one hand. You would likely grab the wrench using your entire fingers, not just your fingertips.
In a robotic hand, tactile sensors that use cameras to obtain information about grasped objects are small and flat, so they are often located in the fingertips. These robots, in turn, use only their fingertips to grasp objects, typically with a pinching motion.
This illustration depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft as it approaches the asteroid Psyche. Once it arrives in 2029, the spacecraft will orbit the metal-rich asteroid for 26 months while it conducts its science investigation.
The first-ever mission to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche aims to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky bodies in our solar system.
It appears that rogue planets – free floating worlds that aren't gravitationally bound to a parent star – might be more common than we thought. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed 540 (yes, that's right) planetary-mass objects in the Orion Nebula and Trapezium Cluster.
The footage of a 'UFO' shared by the city of Del Rio Police Department is mind-boggling, but people have failed to realize it was just an elaborate prank.
Discussions surrounding unexplainable aerial phenomena have become too common, thanks to questionable claims by investigators and the UFO hearing presenting "alien bodies" in Mexico. It isn't always easy to tell what's real and what isn't.
MGM Resorts has confirmed hackers stole an unspecified amount of customers’ personal information during a September cyberattack that will cost the hotel and casino giant an estimated $100 million.
The hotel and casino giant first disclosed it had been targeted by a large-scale cyberattack on September 11.
Following a public unveiling of the United States' first asteroid sample at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 11, NASA will host a media teleconference and separate in-person interviews in English and Spanish with experts from the agency and the University of Arizona.
The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) spacecraft capped its seven-year mission on Sunday, Sept. 24, with the delivery of a pristine sample of surface material from asteroid Bennu.
One of the brightest nebulae in the night sky is Messier 42, the Orion Nebula, located south of Orion's belt.
The nebula is a treasure trove for astronomers studying the formation and early evolution of stars, with a rich diversity of phenomena and objects, including: outflows and planet-forming disks around young stars; embedded protostars; brown dwarfs; free-floating planetary mass objects; and ...
By 2017, Doosan Robotics had the capacity to build more than 10,000 cobots a year at its 4,451-square-meter factory in the Suwon Industrial Complex in Gyeonggi province.
Doosan reported $33.3 million in revenue in 2022, evenly distributed between North America, Europe, and South Korea. Chief executive Ryu Junghoon said proceeds from the IPO will be used to acquire robotics firms specializing in mobility, and expand the company's global presence.
This year's Hyperspace Challenge marks the sixth iteration of the business accelerator, which seeks to build relationships between emerging industry players and the U.S. government to drive innovation for the growing space domain .
The three-month accelerator program — a partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Force RCO, the economic development arm of Central New Mexico Community College and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology — culminates with an in-person event to be held Nov.
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Scientists have taken their first glimpse of a sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu — and stumbled upon a good bit more than they expected.
NEW DELHI: India's Sun-monitoring spacecraft has crossed a landmark point on its journey to escape "the sphere of Earth's influence", its space agency said, days after the disappointment of its Moon rover failing to awaken.
The Aditya-L1 mission, which started its four-month journey towards the centre of the solar system on September 2, carries instruments to observe the Sun's outermost layers.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has pierced the vacuum of deep space again, and unlocked another spectacular discovery beyond the pale.
Astronomers aiming the telescope into the famous Orion Nebula found what look like pairs of huge planets that defy the laws of physics.
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It’s lonely out there in the desolation that reigns where NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft now cruises on its one-way trip out of our solar system, with little to pass the time besides sniffing whiffs of plasma and stargazing.
Back on Earth, a battle has raged over the spacecraft’s future. Pluto and Arrokoth alike reside in what’s known as the Kuiper Belt, a remote and mysterious orbital region of icy objects in the outer reaches of our solar system.
ROBOTS have started to take over a humanoid robot factory where they will be assisting in the design of their own kind.
Agility Robotics has revealed plans to construct the world's largest humanoid robot factory in Salem, Oregon .
The tech startup aims to "enable humans to be more human" by utilizing robots that can take care of common human tasks .
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Space is, as Star Trek has taught us, the final frontier. Humanity has conquered the heights, the depths, and wide expanse in between; however, the next step on our never-ending quest for discovery will be our finest hour.
In many ways, it's a blank slate, especially for creators. I don't mean some celestial being or a divine presence, I'm talking about people who make movies, video games, or any other form of entertainment.
After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT ( 10:52 a.m.
Within an hour and a half, the capsule was transported by helicopter to a temporary clean room set up in a hangar on the training range, where it now is connected to a continuous flow of nitrogen.
Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted a variety of scientific investigations during the week ending Sept. 29, 2023, including FLARE .
This JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) investigation explores the flammability of materials in microgravity. Current tests of materials that are used in crewed spacecraft do not consider gravity, which significantly affects combustion phenomena.
The first scenario begins with two stars about the size of our Sun in close orbit around each other, the planet orbiting both.
Fun facts: How can astronomers infer such a chaotic series of events from present-day observations? It all comes down to well understood stellar physics.
The discoverers: The paper describing the TESS result, "A close-in giant planet escapes engulfment by its star," was published in the journal Nature in June 2023 by an international science team led by astronomer Marc Hon of the University of Hawaii.
If those animatronics at amusement parks or Arnold Schwarzinger's character in "The Terminator" set you on edge, you might want to keep away from Agility Robotics' newest factory.
The creators of Digit, a human-sized bipedal robot complete with "eyes," are bringing th e world's first humanoid robot factory to Oregon, creatively named RoboFab.
Starfield has been out for a while now, giving players adequate opportunity to immerse themselves in the Settled Systems. The game has been praised for being the most polished Bethesda-developed title to date, and for its clever twist on its New Game+ mode .
The space game is a ridiculously massive one with over a thousand planets and moons to explore. With a world this large, it is no surprise that developers had to employ some tricks to create this vast universe and fill it with content.
Mr. Schmitt said in a statement that the government's reliance on lone vendors to facilitate systems — in this case, Microsoft — created unacceptable vulnerabilities in the system. He has pushed for the Defense Department to scrutinize its own reliance on similar single-vendor systems.
OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample canister just creaked open for the first time in more than seven years.
Scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston lifted the canister's outer lid on Tuesday (Sept. 26), two days after OSIRIS-REx 's return capsule landed in the desert of northern Utah.
The six-wheeled geologist spotted the twister as part of an atmospheric exploration of Jezero Crater.
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
Dexterity AI announced a collaboration with FedEx Corp to leverage AI-powered robotic technology to load boxes into trucks and trailers.
Truck loading is one of the most challenging and labor-intensive tasks in parcel hubs.
"Our culture of innovation is driven by a desire to help our team members and customers succeed," Rebecca Yeung, corporate vice president of Operations Science and Advanced Technologies for FedEx, said.
