Alicja Ostrowska's doctoral thesis "Life and AI at NASA" examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the way science is conducted within some of the world's most ambitious space projects. The ...

PORTABLE LEARNING The Lyon County Conservation Foundation recently acquired its own Starlab, a portable learning dome. This dome will be used for various programs, beginning next year with astronomy ...

Researchers are working on a swarm of RoboBalls to send to other planets. The spherical robots would be deployed to map alien landscapes by rolling around challenging terrain. The concept was first ...

Space is still one of those hard to conquer things when it comes to making it both palatable and possible for players in games for many genres. What is the best way to explore it? Is it by ship? Is it ...

There are a lot of things in space: satellites, rockets and fragments from other missions like tools and screws that break off from spacecrafts. These materials all contribute to space debris, which ...

Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used. “Mars is a failed Earth.” It is common enough to hear such ...

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The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...