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Morphing NASA robot could someday walk, fly and drive over alien planets (video)

A team from Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has designed something that goes way beyond your typical rover, and may be the next step in robotic planetary exploration.

Space

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and DARPA want to fix your PDFs. Here's how.

When NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory isn't piloting a rover on another world, it's apparently helping make PDF files more secure.

Space

NASA Spaceship Plans To Study $10 Quadrillion Asteroid

The craft will journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

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NASA's Psyche asteroid probe on track for October launch after 1-year delay

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is on track to hit its new launch target of October 2023, a year later than originally planned, an independent review has found.

Space

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Left Engineers on Read for A Week

NASA's Mars helicopter is fine, but we can expect radio silence more often.

Inverse

Diversity roles are on the decline. What happens next?

Diversity roles still have a higher turnover rate than non-DEI positions.

Fortune

This snake robot could hunt alien life on icy moons like Saturn's Enceladus

Finding alien life just took a twist. A snake-shaped robot from NASA aims to climb the crumpled terrain of icy moons like Enceladus to search out microbes.

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity snaps incredible aerial photo of Perseverance rover during 51st flight

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity captured an incredible aerial photo of the Perseverance rover amidst the desolate Red Planet plains on April 22, 2023.

Space

Why the Greatest Threat To Star-Gazing Isn’t Light Pollution

Wildfires exacerbated by warming temperatures and extreme drought are endangering our views of the night sky. But there may be a controversial way to help mitigate the problem.

Inverse

How to build a robot arm that can flex in the moon's frigid south pole

Extreme cold is merciless on machinery. Fluids thicken to useless goo. Rubber seals stiffen and crack.

Los Angeles Times

50 flights on Mars! Ingenuity helicopter's record-setting hop is a giant leap for exploration

Ingenuity was only supposed to make five flights on Mars. Now at 50 sorties, Ingenuity is helping NASA get ready to bring Red Planet samples to Earth.

Space

Scientists to send robot snake into space to look for aliens

The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) system is being developed at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Wales Online

In 10 Years, a Rare Alignment Could Allow a Human Mission to Venus and Mars

In the coming decade, NASA and China plan to send the first crewed missions (astronauts and taikonauts) to Mars. 2033 could be just the year to do it.

Inverse

Planetary Society leads the charge to save NASA's VERITAS Venus mission

After dramatic budget cuts stalled NASA's VERITAS Venus mission, the nonprofit Planetary Society urges Congress for a revival.

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NASA Venus mission VERITAS becomes collateral damage amid budget pressures

NASA's decision to indefinitely postpone the highly anticipated VERITAS mission to Venus has outraged and confused the team members.

Space

NASA investigates veteran Mars orbiter to solve a missing fuel mystery

NASA engineers have solved the mystery of the Mars Odyssey orbiter's missing fuel, after estimates suggested the veteran spacecraft could be running on empty.

Al Jazeera

How India allowed RP-Sanjiv Goenka firms to beat coal auctions

Modi gov’t ignored CAG warnings and allowed RPSG Group’s shell companies to undercut competition in coal auctions.

Daily Mirror

Enormous asteroid taller than Empire State Building flies past Earth

An asteroid as tall as the Empire State building, named 2011 AG5, flew past Earth this month - in the past scientists once feared it had a chance of impacting on the planet

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An asteroid will just miss us in 2029. Scientists are making the most of a rare opportunity

To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us.

Inverse

65 Years Ago, the First American Satellite Radically Reshaped the Space Race

Explorer 1 marked the entry of science into what had been a military affair.

Los Angeles Times

As NASA's Mars InSight mission comes to an end, JPL engineers say farewell to its twin

Pranay Mishra reached down to the floor of his workplace and scooped a handful of what might be the closest thing on Earth to the feel of Martian soil.

Birmingham Post

NASA launches mission to survey Earth's water with help from Cornish company

The spacecraft will provide insights into how oceans influence climate change and how a warming world affects lakes and rivers

Inverse

50 years ago, one space mission crushed hopes for life around Earth's twin planet

The Mariner 2 mission proved Venus was too hot to have present-day life.

Reuters

NASA to conduct first global water survey from space

A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project to conduct a comprehensive survey of the world's oceans, lakes and rivers for the first time.

Al Jazeera

New NASA instrument detects methane ‘super-emitters’ from space

The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) identified more than 50 methane hotspots around the world.

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