Space Exploration
2nd June 2026
JAXA’s eight-ounce SORA-Q sphere unfolded into a wheeled rover, drove itself across the lunar surface and beamed back images – the first real demonstration that cheap robot swarms, not lone giant rovers, could open up the Moon.
16th April 2026
Researchers in Japan have built a WiFi receiver that survives 500 kilograys of radiation – thousands of times what space electronics endure – paving the way for untethered robots to decommission reactors like Fukushima without trailing tangled cables.
22nd May 2019
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the world gets more crowded billionaires are lining up to make humans an inter-stellar…
12th December 2016
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many regions of space are still off limits to us because of the extreme distances…