A digital twin is a digital representation of an actual object or system replicated through the use of real-time data.

A mysterious object traveling through our solar system may have emitted a signal, according to a scientist. This enigmatic entity, potentially originating from beyond our solar system, has sparked ...

Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait for a long-period comet to arrive in the inner solar system then set off on ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

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The familiar script of planetary defence has been torn up. For decades, the globe's foremost space agencies operated under ...

A team of researchers specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile autonomous robots map their environments and determine their locations. Now these ...

The primate visual system is broadly organized into two segregated pathways, a ventral stream that includes areas of temporal cortex and is involved in object vision and a dorsal stream that includes ...

In a cosmic version of the old needle-in-a-haystack finding, astronomers have spotted an object less than a mile wide that is 4.2 billion miles away, in the outer solar system. The object is part of ...

Astronomers have spotted the second object ever known to visit our solar system from another star system. The object is expected to fly near Mars in October. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) ...