Conditions on the Moon will be harsher, but prototype NASA robotic vehicles braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings this month on sand dunes near Moses Lake, Washington, to prepare for ...

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 ...

Work continues on designs for robots that can help assist the first human explorers on the moon in over half a century. One ...

NASA is testing a swarm of tiny underwater robots designed to explore subsurface oceans on icy moons like Europa. A futuristic NASA mission concept envisions a swarm of dozens of self-propelled, ...

Artificial intelligence is being developed to provide a robotic brain for a future NASA mission to land on the icy surface of one of the solar system's ocean moons, such as Europa or Enceladus. The ...

Like new and protective parents, engineers watched as the TETWalker robot successfully traveled across the floor at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Robots of this type will ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the feasibility of a mission concept called SWIM, short for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers. The project envisions a swarm of dozens of self-propelled, ...

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 ...

When astronauts aboard the International Space Station need some help with routine tasks, they rely upon a trio of helpers ...

NASA begins its second Mars trial in Houston, where four volunteers will live for a year in a printed habitat called the CHAPEA program.

The communications lag between Earth and Jupiter means missions to Europa will need to be smart to deal with problems on their own. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...