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

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

How can an AI robot help improve human space exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Lunar exploration will surge in 2026 as NASA, China, and private companies race to land spacecraft and robots on the moon ...

In just three months, the crew of three young scientists overcame a swarm of challenges to achieve this groundbreaking advancement in robotic autonomy and space operations. “The APIARY team’s ...

Introduction: From fireworks to spaceflight -- Why explore? -- Organizing space -- Near-earth orbit -- The moon -- Mars -- Asteroids -- Space colonization -- The global costs of space exploration -- ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

Retired NASA astronaut explains how robots could shape space exploration Retired NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore discusses the possibility of robots being a part of space exploration efforts and more on ...

Robots flying around in space seem more like fiction than reality, but recently NASA has been testing their free-flying robots called Smart SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, ...

Hundreds of people from at least 15 different countries have journeyed to the International Space Station (ISS), but the habitable artificial satellite has only hosted human astronauts, until the ...

Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, and off-world economies.

Scientists are preparing robotic systems to pave the way for the first human steps on Mars and to ensure smoother missions on ...