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A robot peers at data on a tablet with a telescope in the background.

How Breakthrough Listen Trained AI to Spot Elusive, Mysterious Radio Bursts

19 Sep

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Aircraft That Fly Like Hummingbirds

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Impossible Aerospaces's US-1 quadcopter drone in flight, flying towards an emergency situation.

New Electric Drone Has Groundbreaking Flight Time

10 Sep

Photo: ATG Medialab/ESA

Aeolus Satellite Uses Powerful Ultraviolet Lidar to Measure Wind Speeds From Space

21 Aug

Allevi's ZeroG extruder is shown here as a white box with a red handle and red lettering.

Two Companies Team Up to Send 3D Bioprinter to the Space Station

10 Aug

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Overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during the Apollo 14 transposition and docking maneuvers.

Don Eyles: Space Hacker

10 Jul

glass filled furnace artistic wide view

Casting a $20 Million Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope

6 Jan

Photo: DARPA

Robot Mechanic Could Prevent Satellites From Becoming Space Junk

29 Jul 2017

Brown cardboard box with two wheels attached sitting on rocky dirt surface

NASA Tests Origami-Inspired Robot That May One Day Explore Mars

13 May 2017

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A Gyroscope Jetpack for Astronauts

23 Nov 2015

Photo of Andy Weir

Andy Weir on The Martian, Mars, and the Movie

2 Oct 2015

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Features

Photo: Curt Mason/Project Habu

NASA Remakes the Airplane Wing With Electric Propulsion and a Whole Lot of Propellers

24 Jul

Photo: Siemens

Hybrid Electric Airliners Will Cut Emissions—and Noise

1 Jun

Illustration: Jonathan Carlson

Zunum Aero’s Hybrid Electric Airplane Aims To Rejuvenate Regional Travel

26 Apr

Photo of Bradford W. Parkinson.

Why Your GPS Receiver Isn’t Bigger Than a Breadbox

19 Apr

Illustration: MCKIBILLO

Fiber Lasers Mean Ray Guns Are Coming

27 Mar

Illustration: MCKIBILLO

Zipline Expands Its Medical Delivery Drones Across East Africa

2 Jan

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Merah Putih satellite

Merah Putih Features New Tech to Improve Satellite Broadband Service

10 Aug

Illustration: SpaceX

Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Prepare to Visit the International Space Station

27 Jul

Illustration of the Mars Express spacecraft superimposed on a radar cross section of the southern polar layered deposits of Mars.

Scientists Find a Giant Reservoir of Liquid Water Under the Surface of Mars

25 Jul

Jonathon Keats with instruments created at Intergalactic Omniphonics.

Instruments to Make Music With Aliens: Gamma Ray Bells and Gravitational Wave Cellos

24 Jul

Illustration of Hayabusa2 on the asteroid Ryugu.

Space Explorer Hayabusa2 Prepares to Land on a Diamond-Shaped Asteroid 900 Meters Wide

23 Jul

Mosaic of die images of work funded by DARPA

DARPA Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics

16 Jul

Illustration of neutrinos beneath the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt

12 Jul

Illustration of Swarm's cube sats trying to contact home

Swarm Asks FCC for Permission to Have Its Rogue Satellites Phone Home

10 Jul

James Webb Space Telescope at the Johnson Space Center.

4 Reasons NASA Projects Miss Deadlines and Blow Budgets

22 Jun

Photo by Susan Karlin

Charles Petrie: Giving Burning Man Its Wings

19 Jun

Illustration of Swarm Technologies' satellites in low earth orbit

Swarm Seeks Fresh FCC Satellite Launch Clearance While Still in Penalty Box

13 Jun

Magnus eFusion

Prototype Electric Plane Built by Siemens and Magnus Aircraft Crashes in Hungary, Killing Both People on Board

4 Jun

Drone delivery of vaccines to the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.

Drone Delivery Becomes a Reality in Remote Pacific Islands

31 May

Testing and Simulation to Achieve FAA Certification of Aircraft Fuel Tanks to Lightning

Photo: Equinox Graphics/Surrey Space Centre/University of Surrey

4 Critical Tests for a New Spacecraft That Will Clean Up Space Debris

25 May

A dark sky with a tornado touching down

Spying on a Storm's Infrasonic Signals to Improve Tornado Warnings

8 May

Illustration of a satellite, earth, and internet beamed to a computer with Facebook on it.

Facebook May Have Secret Plans to Build a Satellite-Based Internet

2 May

A photo of Charles Trimble from the mid to late 90’s

Charles Trimble Bet His Company on GPS—and Won

19 Apr

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