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Rochester Institute of Technology's Joel Kastner, a professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics and Astronomy, and a team of researchers with the…

A team is greater than the sum of its parts—the trio of legged robots during a test in a Swiss gravel quarry. Credit:…

Visually striking layers of burnt orange, yellow, silver, brown and blue-tinged black are characteristic of banded iron formations, sedimentary rocks that may have prompted some of the…

A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC -- using observations from NASA's TESS telescope -- presents the detection of a system of two planets slightly larger than…

Should inanimate things decide the course of human nature or should human nature decide the destiny of inanimate things? Every object is actually reverberating every moment. Everything—every…

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was Earth's first attempt at launching a spacecraft to intentionally collide with and deflect an asteroid as a planetary defense technique. On…

The James Webb Space Telescope -- the most precise telescope ever built -- was decisive in discovering the frozen forms of a long series of molecules, such as carbon dioxide, ammonia,…

In our solar system, everything seems to be in order: The smaller rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth or Mars, orbit relatively close to our star. The large gas and ice giants, such as…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Article content WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) – The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed…

Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star -- the range of…