We are living in the age of information, and this sentiment also pertains to astronomy. Quite a few telescopes are trained to scan large sections of our sky, cataloging and imaging millions, even ...

HEAPGrasp performs 3D measurement of objects using only their silhouettes, avoiding reliance on optical properties, significantly improving the grasping success rate of robots for transparent and ...

Researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using only soundwaves. Their novel, optics-inspired method holds great promise for biomedical applications ...

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In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the Kuiper Belt. The closest of these objects are billions of kilometers away.

Engineers have developed a high-throughput, multimaterial 3D inkjet printer that uses computer vision to rapidly and automatically control the amount of material being deposited during the printing ...

China's reusable space plane just got a little more mysterious. Just four days after being launched on its third mission, China's Shenlong ("Divine Dragon") robotic space plane seems to have placed ...

A rare observation opportunity revealed the presence of a thin atmosphere around a small object beyond Pluto.

For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding objects from light using so-called metamaterials with extreme and often unrealistic ...

Science is designed to explain the world around us. And sometimes things get so weird they defy explanation! We have the evidence to prove it. Here are 25 weird objects science can’t explain. WATCH ...

Astronomers generally agreed last week that two tiny objects recently discerned close to Earth are planetoids, the gleaming flecks of solar matter which revolve around the Sun mostly between the ...