In the icy, dark expanse beyond Neptune, a cosmic fossil has surfaced that threatens to upset decades-old assumptions about the solar system’s secret structure. The new discovery of “Ammonite,” a ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

A stadium-sized asteroid, 2005 VO5, is set to approach Earth tomorrow morning. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms its size at 1,200 ft.

Currently the mercator axis expects data as web mercator coordinates (EPSG: 3857). Most real world datasets are however available as lat-long coordinates (EPSG: 4326) and therefore cannot be used ...

This paper presents a new method for robot interception planning based on the proportional navigation. Guidance laws are basically developed for aerospace applications where a pursuer impacts a target ...

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