The mass of “space junk” orbiting the Earth poses a serious threat to future exploration, a British scientist said on Friday at the launch of a project to raise awareness of the issue.
The Hybrid Assisted Limb (HAL) robotic suit has passed German safety tests, increasingly the chances of it being sold in other parts of Europe.
With this new device, you can now have your touch screen displayed right on your arm.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.
NASA appears to be serious about its ambitious Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) that was being discussed last year.
To find habitable worlds in a sea of space data, we need computers that can think fast
The Journal of Propulsion and Power, a peer-reviewed journal published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), published a paper this week asserting that radio frequency cavity thrusters such as the electromagnetic thruster, or EmDrive, are theoretically viable.
Astronomers have precisely measured the strength of a fundamental force of Nature in a galaxy seen eight billion years in the past.
The builders of the pyramid complex in Egypt had a very good astronomer. We call him Senenmut (the Mother’s Brother, or the Uncle).
As Rosetta’s comet approached its most active period last year, the spacecraft spotted carbon dioxide ice – never before seen on a comet – followed by the emergence of two unusually large patches of water ice.
