The material left behind by the lander will likely burn up on re-entry. (Image credit: ESA) New images of the spacecraft suggest that the aging 53-year-old Soviet lander now returning to Earth may be equipped with a parachute. The Kosmos…
Each robot has a magnet on the bottom, yellow gears made of polylactic acid, and a center section with a ring of gears. (Photo credit: Matthew Devlin/University of California, Santa Barbara) A new study has found that swarms of robots…
South Korea plans to send a shoebox-sized cube satellite on the Artemis II test flight in April 2026, NASA and the Korea Aerospace Industry Agency said Friday. NASA aims to send four astronauts around the moon on the 10-day mission,…
The chatbots took on a variety of guises, many of which were quite convincing. (Image credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Reddit is planning to sue a group of researchers who used AI chatbots to secretly experiment on its…
For decades, researchers believed Vesta was a protoplanet, not an asteroid. NASA's Dawn mission seemed to confirm that hypothesis, but new research casts doubt on it. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/MPS/DLR/IDA/Björn Jónsson) As the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt, Vesta…
The AI chatbot reportedly showered its users with compliments until OpenAI pulled its latest updates. (Image credit: Malte Müller via Getty Images) CEO Sam Altman said OpenAI rolled back updates to ChatGPT that made the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot overly…