BANGKOK (AP) — China's Chang'e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in the Inner Mongolian region in ...

A UCLA-led international research collaboration has unveiled a new technology that may help scientists better understand how ...

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe dove extremely close to the solar surface on Dec. 24. The spacecraft should get nearer to the sun than any other human-made object in history — within 3.86 million miles. The ...

Six points of contact detect any displacement. LinuxCNC contributor and machining enthusiast [Andy Pugh] is certainly not afraid to try making specialised tools to see how well they work out, and this ...

On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make the closest-ever approach to the sun by a spacecraft. Parker has made more than 20 close approaches to the sun before, but this one will swoop in ...

A new fiber probe developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin delivers two major innovations in health ...

When you think of a scope probe, you usually think of what is basically a wire with a spring hook and an attenuator. Those are passive probes. [Kerry Wong] shows off a pre-release active probe that ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could ...