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NASA has built a system that could make landing on the Moon or Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to test it out on an upcoming mission.
Moon

How to land on the Moon without a human pilot.

By Victor Tangermann

"Pandemic fatigue" is causing numbers of confirmed cases of COVID-19 to surge in parts of Europe, particularly in France and Spain.
Developments

"We have a very serious situation unfolding before us."

By Victor Tangermann

During a media briefing, a Ford VP claimed that the company's upcoming F-150 EV pickup will be a "real" work truck" — not a "lifestyle" truck.
Advanced Transport

Ford has no interest in "competing for lifestyle customers."

By Victor Tangermann

According to raw video footage uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, Lucid completed a lap of Laguna Seca in a blistering 1:33 using a tri-motor Air prototype.
Tesla

Step aside, Tesla and Porsche.

By Victor Tangermann

According to satellite imagery and ship tracking data, China is preparing to launch its Chang'e-5 sample return mission to the Moon.
Off-World

The mission will attempt to return around two kilograms of lunar samples.

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump Administration is taking the unprecedented step of barring Chinese-owned mobile apps WeChat and TikTok from US app stores starting Sunday.
Future Society

US users will no longer be able to update their TikTok and WeChat apps starting Sunday night.

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a gorgeous new close-up image of Jupiter some 406 million miles from Earth, with Europa off to the left.
Science & Energy

It's a big one.

By Victor Tangermann

Space Hero, a US-based production company, has figured out a way to secure a spot on a 2023 mission to the International Space Station
International Space Station

It says it'll send the winner into orbit on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers are suggesting we could use one of the most common organic polymers on Earth to construct shelters on Mars.
Mars

"It feels like concrete but much lighter."

By Victor Tangermann

The consulting CTO of Oculus says he's "kind of embarrassed" at Facebook's feeble attempts to leverage VR during the pandemic lockdown.
Virtual Reality

"We had let the previous products more or less rot or go away."

By Jon Christian

Beijing-based private space mining company Origin Space is launching its first ever "space mining robot" in November on top of a Long March series rocket.
Space

The space mining race is only getting started.

By Victor Tangermann

Thousands of people in northwest China have caught a bacterial disease after a leak caused an outbreak at a biopharmaceutical last year, CNN reports.
Bacteria

They failed to disinfect waste gas, which infected thousands in the area.

By Victor Tangermann

German startup Volocopter just announced its taking reservations for the first-ever public electric air taxi rides on board its VoloCity aircraft.
Advanced Transport

You'll want to read the fine print first.

By Victor Tangermann

Human "safety driver" Rafaela Vasquez was charged with one count of negligent homicide following a 2018 deadly car crash involving an Uber self-driving car.
Self-Driving Vehicles

The driver is facing anywhere between four to eight years in jail.

By Victor Tangermann

Numerous experts are saying that a scientific paper claiming COVID is a bioweapon made elementary errors and relies on a shaky interpretation of evidence.
Viruses

"This pre-print report cannot be given any credibility in its current form."

By Jon Christian

For the first time, a team of astronomers has detected a massive planet orbiting a white dwarf at a very close distance, circling it every 34 hours.
Off-World

It's not at all what they expected to find.

By Victor Tangermann

Military contractor Dynetics has revealed a full-scale model of its human landing system designed to return NASA astronauts to the Moon in 2024.
NASA

Is this the lander that will carry NASA astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024?

By Victor Tangermann

Walmart just kicked off its own drone delivery pilot, a collaboration with Flytrex, an end-to-end drone delivery company.
Drones

Orders are lowered from eighty feet via a wire.

By Victor Tangermann

In a preprint paper, physics professor Vitaly Vanchurin from the University of Minnesota Duluth argues that the entire universe may be a neural network.
Artificial Intelligence

"The idea is definitely crazy, but if it is crazy enough to be true? That remains to be seen."

By Victor Tangermann

After checking 10 million stars for signs of a technological extraterrestrial civilization, a team of SETI scientists came back with nothing.
Space

A massive SETI project didn't find a single technosignature.

By Dan Robitzski