Smoother Landings Sunday, July 18th, 2010 - Anuradha Menon Spacecraft attempting to land on an unfamiliar surface need to perform a maneuver called “deep throttling" -- a step that...
Galaxy Zoo Friday, September 11th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to the...
Titan's Mysterious Landscape Monday, June 22nd, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth...
I-SWARM Robotic Ants to Explore Mars Monday, December 15th, 2008 - Janice Karin A team of European researchers lead by scientists at the Institute of Process Control and Robotics in Karlsruhe, Germary are...
Grasshopper-Inspired Jumping Robot Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - Janice Karin Rhodri Armour, a Ph. D. student at the University of Bath, has created a new robot capable of both rolling and jumping...
NASA Science Friday, April 25th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop This new NASA Science website features four main sections dedicated to researchers, educators, kids, and citizen scientists...
Lemur – Pet Robot Assisting In Space Friday, February 8th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop JPL Robotics' Lemur (Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robots) were designed to address maintenance issues on spacecrafts...
'Space Ship Two' Unveiled Monday, January 28th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop Virgin Galactic, a company owned and established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group in order to create the world's first...
Earth in HD Thursday, October 25th, 2007 - Noa Rotkop The first high definition image of Earth was recently taken by the Japanese Lunar explorer KAGUYA. The photograph was taken...