Nasa's Valkyrie robot was built by the Johnson Space Center to compete in a 2013 robotics challenge trial. Weighing 300lb and ...

There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to their stars that a year ...

Lord Martin Rees, the UK’s Astronomer Royal, said robots are now so advanced there is no reason to risk lives on missions.

NASA is working on a mission concept called SWIM, or Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers. The idea is to develop a whole swarm of underwater robots that can work together to explore large areas.

"For serious space exploration, I much prefer robotics," he says. "[They] go much further and do more things." US astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the Moon in 1969 [NASA] They are ...

NASA hoped the Mars InSight lander might still wake up if wind cleared some dust. As 2024 ends, engineers will stop listening ...

NASA astronauts of the future could live inside space homes built by giant 3D-printing robots. These robots would be part of Project Olympus, which hopes to construct buildings on the Moon and ...

Nasa's Valkyrie robot was built by the Johnson Space Center to compete in a 2013 robotics challenge trial. Weighing 300lb and standing at 6ft2in, it looks not unlike a Star Wars Stormtrooper, but it ...

Now, Nasa is hoping to not only follow it, but plunge into the watery depths of ocean worlds in the outer solar system. The US space agency is developing tiny swimming robots that could explore ...

Nasa's Valkyrie robot was built by the Johnson Space Center to compete in a 2013 robotics challenge trial. Weighing 300lb and standing at 6ft2in, it looks not unlike a Star Wars Stormtrooper ...

a NASA spacecraft has sat lifeless on the surface of Mars, its solar panels caked with dirt. Despite the fact that InSight retired in December 2022, engineers quietly hoped that the robot ...