NASA’s Astrobee, a compact, cube-shaped robot, is revolutionizing operations aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by ...

ISS Commander Suni Williams helps test out an Astrobee free-flying robot, outfitted with mechanical octopus tentacles to capture dead satellites and hyper-speed space debris, as she orbits the planet ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's robot army is 3D printing Moon bases from lunar dust, creating humanity's first autonomous construction crew for space colonization and Earth applications.

5-23-16 update: Cyclone Space Mining was so close to big mining runs at NASA’s annual robotics competition. But, a broken frame disabled one of the team’s two robots during the team’s first run. Then, ...

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

NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.

NASA's giant Mars Antenna failure hinders spacecraft communication and asteroid studies amid the federal government shutdown.

NASA selects 10 new astronauts from among 8,000 applicants and begins training that will take them into orbit, to the Moon, ...