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Tactile sensing lets robots measure contact, pressure, force, shear, slip and surface deformation so they can understand what is happening at the point where a hand or g…
The deep sea is the vast ocean environment below the sunlit surface layers, commonly including waters deeper than about 200 meters. It is cold, dark, under high pressure…
Evidence for climate change comes from many independent measurements rather than one thermometer record. Surface stations, satellites, ocean instruments, ice observation…
Artemis is NASA’s campaign to build a sustained human exploration capability around and on the Moon, using Orion, the Space Launch System, commercial lunar landers, surf…
A potentially habitable exoplanet is a world where known conditions could allow environments suitable for life as we understand it; being in a star’s habitable zone is o…
The presence of water on the Moon is giving NASA scientists a new direction for plans to send the first woman to the planet.
The northern winters are chilling, but if you get to experience winter in Russia, you'll definitely feel lucky.
Mars robot Zhu Rong cannot wake up from hibernation because its solar panels are covered by a thick layer of dust.
The first recording of a dust storm on the surface of Mars revealed that the dust tornado that 'swallowed' the Perseverance robot in September 2021 was 119 m high.
Many people might think that tungsten is the substance with the highest melting point on our planet, but that is not the case at all.
Meteorites are often particularly heavy, magnetic, and bear characteristic marks from being heated as they plunged into the atmosphere.
There are theories that in the 1990s, the Soviet Union discovered about 20,000 pyramid-shaped ancient city ruins on Venus, which appeared to have been abandoned long ago.
Jupiter's atmosphere is divided into four layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. Each layer has its own function and role in Jupiter's activ…
Oarfish - a mysterious sea fish that only appears when there is an earthquake under the sea, so it is considered a monster by people.
One of Saturn's moons, similar in shape to