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

There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to their stars that a year lasts just a few days. There are ocean worlds, and many moons and bodies that ...

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

FUTURE space colonists could live inside giant 3D-printed homes on the Moon and Mars – and we might already know what they’ll ...

Colossal super-rockets being produced by billionaires Elon Musk snd Jeff Bezos are set to carry astronauts across the heavens in a new "Golden Age of Space Exploration" (Photo by NASA via Getty Images ...

When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Diane Tedeschi Robonaut 1A was a test unit in the robotics lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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 ...

NASA astronaut Anne McClain with the first Astrobee robot in the Kibo module of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA is seeking proposals from potential commercial providers for ...

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 ...

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 ...

On her first visit to orbit, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has just introduced herself to three robots stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). “We hit the ground running (or floating??) ...

At the core of NASA’s Artemis mission is Gateway, a lunar outpost that demands advanced power and propulsion. Aviation Week ...