Smoother Landings Sunday, July 18th, 2010 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 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 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 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 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 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 JPL Robotics' Lemur (Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robots) were designed to address maintenance issues on spacecrafts...
'Space Ship Two' Unveiled Monday, January 28th, 2008 Virgin Galactic, a company owned and established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group in order to create the world's first...