Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is confirmed as a natural comet from beyond our solar system, posing no threat to Earth despite ...

High above the Milky Way’s quiet spiral arms, the Hubble Space Telescope has zeroed in on a young stellar system that looks ...

Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait for a long-period comet to arrive in the inner solar system then set off on ...

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In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

The primate visual system is broadly organized into two segregated pathways, a ventral stream that includes areas of temporal cortex and is involved in object vision and a dorsal stream that includes ...

A team of researchers specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile autonomous robots map their environments and determine their locations. Now these ...

In a cosmic version of the old needle-in-a-haystack finding, astronomers have spotted an object less than a mile wide that is 4.2 billion miles away, in the outer solar system. The object is part of ...

For IT professionals used to working with traditional file systems for their entire careers, object-based storage is like a whole new dimension they never knew existed. The concept of object storage ...

Astronomers have spotted the second object ever known to visit our solar system from another star system. The object is expected to fly near Mars in October. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) ...