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This high-tech gunsight could allow soldiers to shoot around corners, Matrix-style
Sep 17, 2021 10:59 AM
This 120-million-year-old bird may have been one of the first to shake its tail feathers
Sep 17, 2021 8:00 AM
Beams of light—not cables—are carrying the internet across a river in the Congo
Sep 16, 2021 8:00 PM
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Mar 11, 2021
Was there ever life on Mars? Perseverance’s SHERLOC laser sniffs for microscopic clues
The ultraviolet “imager” is a life-hunting machine more than two decades in the making.
Mar 8, 2021
Perseverance’s giant ‘hand lens’ will scour Mars for signs of ancient life
An early version helped identify ancient life on Earth. Now its successor sits on the Red Planet.
Mar 18, 2020
At long last, NASA’s probe finally digs in on Mars
NASA unsticks its Martian digging probe by whacking it with a shovel.
Oct 10, 2019
NASA’s plan to save its stuck Mars drill involves a robot with a shovel
This 'mole' has been lodged in the Martian soil for months.
Feb 14, 2019
NASA officially ends the Opportunity rover’s 15-year mission
The longest-running surface mission laid the groundwork for some big things ahead.
Feb 8, 2019
Rosalind Franklin missed out on a Nobel, but now she’ll help look for life on Mars
A rover of her own.
Nov 21, 2018
NASA’s 2020 rover will search Mars for signs of life
And now we know exactly where it's going to poke around.
Sep 24, 2018
Megapixels: A rover snaps a pic as it hops along the surface of an asteroid
Japan landed two spacecraft on the surface of Ryugu.
Apr 6, 2018
These seafaring robots will search for life across the solar system
Submarines and rovers will go for a dive on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn
Mar 22, 2017
The Curiosity Mars rover’s wheels are starting to break
Not even space robots are immune to the effects of old age
