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China’s ‘smart’ flying robot ‘hopper’ to hunt for water on moon’s south pole
A flying robot will be China’s next tool in the search for water on the moon’s south pole. The Moon’s south pole has become a ...
The Washington Post16d
Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples
The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ago, contained many of the basic building blocks for life as we know it, including amino acids, according to long-awaited research ...
The New York Times16d
Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, a robotic probe, to Bennu in order to gather clues to the birth of the solar system. Some 4.5 billion years ago, our solar neighborhood started as a cloud of ...
China plans to send a flying robot to search for water on the moon’s far side
China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the ...