Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Three robotic systems funded by NASA are converging on a single goal: proving that machines can scout, dig, and communicate on the lunar surface well enough to support a permanent human outpost. The ...

Subterranean caves might be the safest place for people to live on the moon, and the trio of SherpaTT, Coyote III, and LUVMI-X are meant to scope them out.

NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it possible ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the ...

An Astrobee robotic free-flyer with tentacle-like arms was tested in a demonstration experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who is currently serving as ...

I am standing before one of the most advanced robots in the world and am awestruck and disoriented by its humanoid form. Part Transformer, part Star Wars stormtrooper and with hands that look like ...

Bradley Gartner is a senior at Miami University majoring in Robotics Engineering. He completed an internship this summer with NASA at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Penn’s Sung Robotics Lab is working with NASA to lead an initiative investigating how robots can explore and navigate extraterrestrial environments. The project, titled “Temporarily, Robots Unite to ...