IBEX

Robotics

Ibex extreme mobility agribot goes where no farm robot has gone before

UK-based Ibex Automation is starting field trials in England's Peak District of its extreme mobility agricultural robot that can maneuver around steep pastures as it identifies and destroys weeds.

A representation of our heliosphere traveling through the interstellar medium to produce a heliotail that has been mapped by IBEX for the first time (Image: NASA/Goddard)

Space

NASA's IBEX grants first glimpse of Solar System's tail

Scientists have for the first time mapped the structure of a long-suspected tail trailing behind our solar system as it careens through space.

Aircraft

NASA launches Interstellar Boundary Explorer

NASA has launched the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, which will observe the boundary of our solar system from a 200,000-mile Earth orbit.