The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit.

In September 2024, I was relying on mass cold emails to build my business. The process was tedious and left me guessing who I ...

Watch how the Japanese company ispace's Resilience lander attempts to touch down on the moon. "The solar-powered lander carried five science payloads, including a micro moon rover named Tenacious," ...

A research team led by Prof. Shao Dingfu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has proposed a universal mechanism that enables deterministic electrical control of ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

SpaceForge has launched the National Microgravity Research Centre (NMRC), the terrestrial arm of its low-Earth-orbit manufacturing programme.

In the early 1990s, NASA launched thousands of baby jellyfish into space. Not just a few specimens in a lab container, but about 2,500 tiny jellyfish polyps, sealed in bags of artificial seawater and ...

Building space-based AI. Designing new molecules with quantum computers. Why pink noise is bad for your sleep. All that and ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

A pioneering experiment will investigate the behaviour of this cyanobacterium, scientifically known as Limnospira indica, on the International ...

Orbital Debris Assessment Report (ODAR) analysis and the observed success of commercial operators, plus the instinct to copy what worked last time, have produced modest success. Satellites are small ...

Ensuring your plants get the right amount of water is a challenging task, and lugging around a watering can is hard work. Here are some hands-off alternatives.