Picture of the Day

Pictured is a Lunar Communications Tower. Constructed by robots, investigating ways to establish a robust communications infrastructure on the moon by the late 2020’s.

Pictured is the next-generation spacesuit for the International Space Station (ISS), which is lighter weight and lower volume than NASA's current spacesuit.

This is the CurveQuad, the mini quadruped robot based on origami. The centimetre-scale device uses curved-crease origami to self-fold, unfold, crawl and steer. This is done using a single motor.

Today's picture of the day comes courtesy of Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover, which captured this 360-degree panorama using its black-and-white navigation cameras, or Navcams.

Pictured is Mythen, an electric racing car hand-​built by students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University, which has broken the Guinness World Record for acceleration.

What's the collective noun for satellites, packed ready for launch? How about a Nest? It looks like it in this image from the recent SpaceX Transporter-8 smallsat rideshare...

Today's Picture of the Day features the Satellite Applications Catapult launching its new Drone Test and Development Centre (DTDC), a facility at the Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire.

Pictured is the European Space Agency's GRASS gravimeter. The first instrument to directly measure gravity on the surface of an asteroid has undergone testing in ESA’s Mechanical Systems Laboratory in The Netherlands.

Check out the work of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which has been creating and testing a snake-like robot called EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor).

Almost ready. The beam-hopping 5G satellite satellite - JoeySat - that will provide high-speed internet connectivity from LEO has left the OneWeb Florida facilities, heading for a launch pad in California...