Sending 1 kilogram to Mars will set you back roughly $2.4 million, judging by the cost of the Perseverance mission. If you want to pack up supplies and gear for every conceivable contingency, you’re ...

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

Robots and humans assembled their brains and artificial intelligence (AI) for Moon exploration at the ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. A team proved that when it comes to surveying uncharted ...

On the Moon, there are raw materials that humanity could one day mine and use. Various space agencies, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), are already planning missions to better explore Earth’s ...

An enormous canyon stretches across Mars: Valles Marineris is 3,000 kilometers long, 600 kilometers wide and on average 8 kilometers deep. Its Latin name goes back to the Mars orbiter Mariner, which ...

NASA tests small underwater robots designed to explore icy moons' hidden oceans. The prototype called SWIM, which stands for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers, was constructed at NASA's Jet ...

Before the doomed crew of OceanGate’s Titan submarine embarked on their fatal expedition to view the deep-sea wreckage of the Titanic, the vessel was hand-ratcheted closed, making it impossible to ...

Engineers at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled a groundbreaking development in robotics: shapeshifting, 2D triangular robots that can transform into virtually ...

WHERE: The Lunar and Planetary Institute Lecture Hall, 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, TX In exploring the solar system, what unique traits do astronauts and robots bring to the job? Are our ...

A research group in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute is creating the next generation of explorers — robots. The Autonomous Exploration Research Team has developed a suite of robotic ...

Engineers are training legged robots for future lunar missions that will search for minerals and raw materials. To ensure that the robots can continue to work even if one of them malfunctions, the ...