A new radar-based technology named Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response (FINDER) has been developed When natural disasters or man-made catastrophes topple buildings, searc... Read more
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from o... Read more
Smart camera can think about what the pictures signify so the rover can decide on its own whether to keep exploring a particular site, or move on Smart as the Mars Curiosity mission has been... Read more
Just as remotely-operated vehicles help humans explore the depths of the ocean from above, NASA has begun studying how a similar approach may one day help astronauts explore other worlds. On... Read more
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen tr... Read more
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great detail. The first NASA-p... Read more
Their gentle, continuous push produces astounding speeds, using only tiny sips of xenon fuel. Inside cavernous “Tank 5,” a vacuum chamber as big as a subway tunnel at Cleveland... Read more
Why send just one robot into space when you could send two robots into space instead? We did it with Spirit and Opportunity, and that worked out great is mostly still working out great. It w... Read more
NASA has selected 24 small satellites, including three from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014,... Read more
Electric rocket engines known as Hall thrusters, which use a super high-velocity stream of ions to propel a spacecraft in space, have been used successfully onboard many missions for half a... Read more
This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to collect a sample on Mars. NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm... Read more
An autonomous system for exploring the solar system’s smaller members, such as moons and asteroids, could bring us closer to a human mission to Mars. Stanford researchers, in collabora... Read more
To investigate whether the core of Mars is solid or liquid NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the... Read more
NASA’S Curiosity has the fastest modem on Mars. Since its only competition is an oldish bit of kit aboard Opportunity, one of two rovers dispatched in 2003, that is not saying much, at... Read more
There isn’t a radio-control handset in sight as several small robots roll briskly up the hallways of an office building. Working by themselves and communicating only with one another,... Read more
