Even astronauts do grunt work, including routine maintenance and organizing cargo. It’s a waste of precious space time and taxpayer money—it costs about $130,000 an hour to keep astronauts in orbit.

When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway before a gobsmacked audience, it made headlines – but not for the reasons its creators ...

A former engineer at the humanoid robotics firm Figure AI has sued the company, alleging they were fired for raising a critical safety issue, CNBC reports. The principal robotic safety engineer, ...

The humble clumps of moss that grow on garden walls and between the cracks of sidewalks are hardy enough to survive the rigors of space, a new experiment found, and that means the velvety green stuff ...

At a recent concert, Portugal. The Man enlisted two maestros of musical comedy, “Weird Al” Yankovic and the Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, for a very sincere — though obviously still very fun — cover ...

The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies. The moon’s orbit around the Earth isn’t a perfect circle so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. When a full moon is closer ...

In 2010, a small team of independent Russian researchers carried out a covert robotic mission inside the Great Pyramid—one that was never authorized, never publicized, and almost never discussed.

The three-person crew will spend about eight months aboard the orbital laboratory conducting scientific research. This mission comes as the ISS marks 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Like a giant Roman candle, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket soared into the night sky on Wednesday, carrying Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander. Its destination is the moon, where ...

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