SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced Friday that the company's massive Starship rocket is set to depart for Mars at the end of 2026, carrying Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus. In a post on X, he added that human landings on Mars could start as early as 2029 ...

Researchers are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars after five days of experiments this month at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. The national park is serving as a Mars analog environment and the ...

Scientists from the LASSIE project with their quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, New Mexico in August. The quadruped robot was able to scout and train autonomously. The work is part of NASA's Moon to Mars project. Oregon State University ...

TL;DR: SpaceX plans to launch a humanoid robot to Mars next year, with the goal of landing humans on the planet by 2029 at the earliest, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX is nearing its goal of putting humans on the surface of Mars, but before we ...

Electrical discharges, the release and transmission of electricity through an insulating medium, were found in audio and electromagnetic recordings by a Nasa robot.

LOS ANGELES — Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the red planet’s north pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission. The three-legged Phoenix Mars lander fitted with a backhoe arm ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Valkyrie robot could one day take over Mars. But what about Earth? Well, we're safe for a while, at least. Four sister robots built by NASA could be pioneers in the colonization of ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation of bots inspired by creepy crawlies. The machine, which weighs less than a paperclip, can flap its wings up to 400 times a second ...

A squad of robots will explore off-planet caves to help set up homes for humans, according to new research. The robo-teams would work together to rappel down into lava holes to map out potential habitats on the Moon and Mars. A team of European researchers ...

Scientists analyzed 28 hours of recordings over two Martian years, listening for electrical signals. Dust devils on Mars could be brewing electric currents, and scientists may have just heard them strike the arid landscape in a first-of-its-kind discovery.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our neighboring world and likely crashed on Mars instead.