A dog-like robot being developed to hop across complex terrain on other planets has been used to play a live-action game of ping pong in its latest phase of testing.
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It’s often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer aboard Apollo 11. But is that true? And, if so, how much more powerful are our phones?
Nasa will send a spacecraft to explore the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and search for “the building blocks of life”, the space agency has revealed.
SpaceX has launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites. The rocket is also carrying a deep-space atomic clock, a solar sail, clean and green fuel, and even human ashes.
SpaceX’s latest launch, due to be launched on Tuesday morning South African time and billed by Elon Musk as the company’s most difficult ever, has the potential to be extraordinary for a whole host of reasons.
A Nasa rover on Mars has detected its largest amount of methane yet, which could be an early indication of life on the Red Planet.
Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo could one day be used to detect signs of cardiac arrest, scientists believe.
The University of the Witwatersrand and IBM have formed a partnership to bring quantum computing to Africa as part of the US technology giant’s efforts to expand the technology around the world.
The launch of 60 Starlink satellites by Elon Musk’s SpaceX has grabbed the attention of people around the globe. With Musk planning for up to 12 000 satellites in low-Earth orbit, this fleet could forever change our view of the heavens.
The US and Japan will “dramatically expand” their cooperation in outer space, with missions to Mars and the moon coming “very soon”, US President Donald Trump said.