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If the idea of stargazing without skipping bedtime sounds enticing, mark your calendar for late February. The month ends with an action-packed evening planet parade, with six planets in the sky at ...

TL;DR: No Man's Sky's 'Worlds Part II' update, version 5.50, expands the universe with new stars, planets, and environments, including detailed new terrain and deep oceans. With strange creatures to ...

Researchers are working on a swarm of RoboBalls to send to other planets. The spherical robots would be deployed to map alien landscapes by rolling around challenging terrain. The concept was first ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have some exciting ideas about the future of digital mapping for space exploration. They completed a paper titled ...

Planetary exploration has long been at the forefront of scientific endeavour, with mobile robotics and terramechanics playing pivotal roles in the design and operation of exploration vehicles. Mobile ...