NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of Mount Sharp, offering a dramatic ...

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 ...

Talk of Mars often jumps straight to rockets and boots on red soil, but much of the work happens quietly, long before any ...

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 ...

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and ...

Scientists explain how robotic missions are helping prepare for human travel to the moon and Mars, focusing on radiation, water mapping, lunar dust, and space weather planning ...

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

A view from the Mars Exploration Rover from when it set a one-day distance record for Martian driving, in 2005 (via Panoramic Camera, NASA/JPL-Caltech) The 3D images make up just a small part of the ...

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 ...

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...