While helium-3 is exceedingly rare on Earth, it’s plentiful on the Moon. But getting it won’t be simple. The race to harvest ...

UW–Madison researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way that rover tests are evaluated on Earth, using computer simulation.

Juneau Paulsen (far right) and Ellie Taplin (left of Paulsen), both UW mechanical engineering majors, help direct the diver in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) from the NBL control room. The ...

The University of Wyoming has been sending teams of undergraduate engineers to NASA for several years, and this year continued that growing legacy of engineering innovation.

Work continues on designs for robots that can help assist the first human explorers on the moon in over half a century. One ...

The successful candidate will be a visionary leader who is deeply committed to UW–Madison’s public mission and able to lead effectively.

Wisconsin sky gazers are in for a special treat this week. The Orionid meteor shower is set to peak Tuesday. The display, which could see up to 20 meteors an hour, just so happens to coincide with ...

Engineers are developing a concept for interstellar travel using a swarm of 1,000 ultra-light "laser sails." The mission aims to send these sails to Proxima b, an exoplanet 4.25 light-years away, ...

Each week in the college football season, a record number of head coaches are getting fired. Wisconsin Badgers fans would like to see athletic director Chris McIntosh follow suit, but the broader ...

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Enjoying Machine Design’s Motion Systems content? Be sure to ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...

Artemis III is currently scheduled to launch in mid 2027. Earlier this week, Transportation Secretary and NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy suggested that SpaceX may not be the first American ...