Astronomers have detected space debris as small as 5 centimeters in geosynchronous orbit, revealing a largely hidden ...

Researchers have developed a new high-speed way to detect the location, size and category of multiple objects without acquiring images or requiring complex scene reconstruction. Because the new ...

Black hole discovery reshaped astrophysics by proving that some of the universe's most powerful objects cannot be seen directly but can be measured through their effects on space and time. Signals ...

A new generation of robots is beginning to take shape, one that moves, senses, and adapts more like living creatures.

Teaching machine learning tools to detect specific objects in a specific image and discount others is a 'game-changer' that could lead to advancements in cancer detection, according to researchers.

The cosmic zoo contains objects so bizarre and extreme that they generate gravitational waves. Scorpius X-1 is part of that strange collection. It's actually a binary pair: a neutron star orbiting ...

An artificial skin is even better than human skin at sensing objects, because it can detect and identify items that it hasn’t touched yet. “Human skin has to touch something to tell it what is there,” ...