Scientists call the region of space influenced by the sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don't know much about its shape News By Sarah A. Spitzer published July 14, 2024 ...

In the first, they designed a simple habitat structure that could change its shape and stiffness. Future space explorers could deploy the same kind of material to build a variety of habitat modules.

Space planes take off in a single stage to low Earth orbit and return to a rooftop runway for refueling. The animation features "Elevator," a song by the United Kingdom band, Space Elevator.

In a 2D the answer is two, and a 3D space can be tiled in shapes that have no corners at all, called soft cells. These shapes can be made in a few different ways, and some are shown here.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has snapped an incredible image of the largest star-forming region within the Small Magellanic Cloud. VIEW GALLERY - 2 Jak Connor Tech and Science Editor ...

The individual modules of the Mori3 robot are triangular in shape. The modules easily join together to create polygons of different sizes and configurations in a process known as polygon meshing.

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.

Researchers have developed a novel copper-based alloy that exhibits a special shape memory effect at temperatures as low as -200°C. The work has been published in the journal Communications ...