Salto is the world's best jumping robot.

Meet Salto, the robot that jumps like a ninja

Duncan Haldane and a team of roboticists at Ron Fearing’s Biomimetic Milisystems Lab in UC Berkeley published a paper on Tuesday on Salto, the...
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NASA found the small spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 lost since 2009

During the past week, NASA found the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 that went silent since 2009. NASA has developed a new ground-based radar technique to...
Japan now has a military communications satellite in orbit

Japan now has a military communications satellite in orbit

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Kirameki-2 satellite aboard the agency’s H-IIA rocket on Tuesday afternoon. The payload will enhance military communications amid...
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Japan fails to launch its SS-520 mini-rocket into orbit

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has failed to launch an in-orbit satellite through a mini-rocket that was in development over the last few years....

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch: all you need to know

SpaceX announced during the late afternoon on Saturday that the Falcon Heavy's first official test will occur on Tuesday, February 7th. This test will...
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Watch: Stephen Hawking explains what happened before the Big Bang

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking guest starred on Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s talk show to be interviewed about what came before the beginning of the universe,...

NASA launches GeoCARB Mission for the measuring of greenhouse gasses

NASA recently announced through a press release their commitment to investigate the natural forces behind climate change via a new mission that will examine...

Proxima Centauri B may be a candidate for human colonization

Scientists have been searching for planets that share similar features to the Earth. One of the most promising is Proxima Centauri B located in...

Orangutan discovery overshadowed by impending extinction

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. announced the discovery of a new great...

Dark matter remains to be detected after massive search ends

UK – Earlier today, spokesmen of the LUX project announced that their dark matter detector has failed in finding the puzzling particles after 20 months...