A self-propelled snake-like robot developed by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory can map and navigate previously inaccessible terrain autonomously...NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2023
The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars is the highest-resolution global image of Mars ever created, at 5.7 trillion pixels (5.7 terapixels).
NASA From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2023
NASA's Lunabotics Junior Contest offers students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design lunar-excavating robots.
NASA From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2021
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration dispatched two robots to the Arctic in early July to collect sea surface temperature data.
NASA From ACM TechNews | September 20, 2021
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists are calibrating images of the sun with artificial intelligence to enhance data for solar research....NASA From ACM TechNews | August 2, 2021
A new auto-navigation system will allow the Perseverance rover on Mars to drive itself.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory From ACM TechNews | July 7, 2021
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected three teams of researchers to pursue ideas for creating components of Unmanned Aircraft Systems...NASA News From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2017
After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy...NASA From ACM News | December 23, 2015
NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science...NASA From ACM News | May 11, 2015
The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 31, 2014
NASA has issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for proposals about science instruments that could be carried aboard a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | July 16, 2014
It has been a decade since a robotic traveler from Earth first soared over rings of ice and fired its engine to fall forever into the embrace of Saturn.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 27, 2014
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn's smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scientific...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 18, 2014
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.NASA From ACM News | June 19, 2013
"The mission to find, capture and redirect an asteroid robotically, and then visit it with astronauts to study it and return samples takes advantage of expertise...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 11, 2013
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 26, 2012
In an effort to introduce, inform, and inspire readers about NASA, the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, has partnered with Tor-Forge Books...NASA From ACM News | August 23, 2011