The first-ever interstellar comet is showing signs of brightening, suggesting it may have been heated up as it passed near to the sun

Pluto’s ancient oceans may have come about just after the icy world was born, melting from ice in a process that suggests the dwarf planet took just 30,000 years to form

When Earth and Venus formed, they both had global magma oceans deep underground. Earth’s has turned solid by now, but Venus’s may still remain hidden

Some black holes are way bigger than we can explain, and they may have come from supermassive stars that formed by devouring the other stars around them

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that hydrogen dominates our universe, finally gets the recognition she deserves in a rich biography, What Stars Are Made Of

Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down

Spending at least six months in microgravity can cause astronauts’ brain volumes to increase, causing pressure to build up in their heads and creating vision problems

We know that there is at least one planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, and now astronomers may have taken the first picture of a second world

NASA has awarded $967 million to three space flight companies – Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX – to build lunar landers that will be part of the Artemis programme to send humans to the moon by 2024

Stars that are similar to the sun in every way we can measure are mostly more active than the sun, which hints that the sun’s activity may ramp up someday, risking solar eruptions

SpaceX’s first crewed launch is planned for 27 May and will be run from a mission control with desks set six feet apart to comply with social distancing protocols

From vintage satellites to lunar rovers, space archaeologist Alice Gorman is teasing out a unique history of humanity from the objects we've dispatched from Earth

The leading hypothesis for how the moon formed involves a collision between a Mars-sized object and Earth that would have boiled away elements like carbon, making its discovery on the moon a mystery

About 80 per cent of stars in the Milky Way’s central bulge have relatively close encounters with another star, which can fling off any planets orbiting them

The Pulitzer Prize Board this week awarded its commentary award to The New York Times' Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay launching the "1619 Project." This will accelerate a trend already underway: subjecting schoolchildren to a curriculum that blames slavery on capitalism and whose creator believes socialism offers the best path to racial equity.

In 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation sent relief money across the Atlantic to a starving Ireland - something the Irish, who lost more than a million people in a famine made worse by British indifference, have never forgotten. The Irish are now giving financial aid to Native American tribes hit with a pandemic that has been made worse by American incompetence.

The overlooked epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic is our nation's nursing homes, veterans' homes, and other long-term care facilities.

In light of the newly declassified documents, it is clear that understanding what happened in that January 5 Oval Office meeting is essential to understanding the corrupt operation against the Trump administration.

Get ready for the first scored event in DARPA's latest Grand Challenge

Roboticists share what they've learned so far from DARPA's Subterranean Challenge, and how they readied their bots for the next event—the Tunnel Circuit

A lightweight, flexible exosuit pulls on your muscles as you move to make you more efficient

How autonomous robots in the underground scavenger hunt pick up points for their teams

Supporting long-range communications inside of a mine is extremely difficult, so DARPA SubT teams are trying out some creative approaches

Startup Cerebras has built a wafer-size chip for AI, but it isn’t the only one possible

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It's about more than just first place as teams look toward more competitions in 2020

Human movements can teach robots the skills they need to dig holes and—maybe someday—build the first colonies on Mars

One of our favorite consumer drones gets an FPV upgrade

It'll take more than having its fingers chopped off to stop this robot hand

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The Danish company is announcing a powerful new member of its collaborative robots family

FarmWise is using AI and robotics to enhance farming efficiency by taking care of each plant individually

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Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone

Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development

John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company

Researchers in Brazil are developing a drone that scouts for evidence—and want to use its footage to reconstruct crime scenes

The improvements include nimbler feet, better perception, and fully custom electronics

A startup led by robotics veterans is announcing a pre-seed funding round with participation from Amazon's Alexa Fund and iRobot Ventures

This cozy little box provides a remote home for Skydio's fully autonomous obstacle-avoiding drone

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Can an online game that combines human brainpower with AI solve intractable problems?

Pepe helps keep Indian children healthy by reminding them to wash up

Long before NLP became a hot field in AI, people devised rules and machines to manipulate language

Leaders in Silicon Valley—both the real one and the fictional one on HBO—started this week by debating the responsibilities of tech companies

As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference

The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin

Spacecraft propulsion systems are ready for China’s daring touchdown attempt on the red planet

Janelle Shane talks about the absurdity, perils, and limits of AI