The Quad Cities International Airport in Moline, Michigan is aiming to possibly become one of America’s spaceports. According to an announcement from the Airport’s director, Ben Leischner, they’re beginning the […]
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NASA Will Leave Mars Samples in Orbit Following “Orderly Shutdown” of Sample Return Program
NASA has begun reducing work related to its Mars Sample Return (MSR) program due to uncertainties about mission funding for next year. That includes an “orderly shutdown” of the Capture, […]
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Changliu Liu Receives Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Champion Award
11/16/2023
Congratulations to Changliu Liu for receiving the 2023 ARM Champion Award!The ARM Champion Award Program is an effort to recognize members of the Advanced Robotics for…
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Dubrawski Receives Fulbright Specialist Award
11/08/2023 Aaron Aupperlee
Artur Dubrawski, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award to complete a project…
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NASA’s Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low
Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet.
NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25,…
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A New Way of Thinking About Cancer, Life, the Power of Genes, and DNA, from Philip Ball, Author of How Life Works
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The irony seemed a bit heavy-handed, frankly. Just as I was about to publish a…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Clocks 4,000 Days on Mars
The mission team is making sure the robotic scientist, now in its fourth extended mission, is staying strong, despite wear and tear from its 11-year journey.
Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012,…
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Possible traces of protoplanet found in Earth’s mantle
In a study of the Earth’s mantle, scientists have identified two compositionally distinct continent-sized anomalies which could be traces of a protoplanet which impacted with Earth during its early formation.
This protoplanet is commonly known…
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Evidence of major conflict in Spain 5,000-years-ago
Archaeologists have uncovered the skeletal remains of more than 300 individuals, indicating that a major conflict occurred in Laguardia, Spain, 5,000-years-ago.
The discovery was made by the University of Valladolid at the site of San Juan ante…
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