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(Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/planet-earth-220201/) A new technology described as an “omnimagnet” was developed by two University of Utah professors and will now be used by a New Hampshire-based robotics company to help clean up space debris. The company, Rogue Space Systems Corporation will use the new technology on their robots in a variety of ways such as repairing satellites or deorbiting space debris. According to Jake Abbott, professor of mechanical engineering who helped develop the omnimagnet, the technology consists of three electromagnets that create a magnetic field to capture space debris and stop it from correcting or reducing the orbit of objects in space. Tucker Hermans, professor at the school of computing, also helped develop the technology. Abbott said when a satellite or piece of space debris needs to be accessed to make repairs or reduce its orbit, robotic equipment risks breaking up the space debris or robotic arm, creating more debris. More comp

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have collaborated on the production of a new telescope that will explore space for optical clues about violent cosmic events that create ripples, or waves, in the fabric of space itself. Observatories are currently only able to measure the effects of waves as they pass through our local swath of space-time, which makes it difficult to trace the origin of the source. The new telescope, named the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), will fill this gap by searching for optical signals in the electromagnetic spectrum that might indicate the source of the wave. A new telescope, consisting of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, one at La Palma in the Canary Islands and the other in Australia, has been produced to track the source of gravitational waves for the first time. The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), a collaborative project led by the University of Warwick and with major contributions