NASA has a long track record of engineering feats that have helped humans explore the depths of space. One of the agency's next projects will help humans travel to new celestial bodies – but it may ...

FUTURE space colonists could live inside giant 3D-printed homes on the Moon and Mars – and we might already know what they’ll ...

NASA is working on The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) system, a snake-like robot that would be used to explore the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons. NASA/JPL-CalTech/SWNS NASA’s ...

Digging on the Moon is a hard job for a robot. It has to be able to collect and move lunar soil, or regolith, but anything launching to the Moon needs to be lightweight. The problem is excavators rely ...

It's been joked that Mars is a planet entirely inhabited by robots. While this is true (unless we find biological evidence to the contrary or show up ourselves), it hardly makes Mars unique. Humans ...

'All robotic exploration is really a human-robotic partnership. How do we amplify the science in this human-robotic partnership?' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

Is there life outside of Earth? A new snake-like robot could be the one to find out. The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) is being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a space ...

NASA is exploring the potential for human robot design with Robonaut 2, a humanoid machine currently assisting astronauts on the International Space Station. The chief design goal for the robot -- a ...

NASA's contest wants kids to design a new robot that could dig and move the moon's soil--similar to what the Artemis program of the space agency is currently doing. The full moon rises over the Bondi ...

Andy Altman covered all things science and tech. He led production on CNET's award-winning limited documentary series Hacking the Apocalypse. He also created and co-hosted our video series What the ...

There seems to be a trend in the robotics world to make industrial robots shaped like dogs. That's probably because four-legged robots can be more adaptable than bipedal ones, traversing difficult ...