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

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

Scientists from the LASSIE project with their quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, New Mexico in August. The quadruped robot was able to scout and train autonomously. The work is part of NASA ...

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

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and ...

Elon Musk boasts he will launch a squad of Optimus humanoid robots to Mars aboard his Starship super-capsules, but a leading U.S. robotics scholar predicts their quick demise (Photo credit should read ...

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' surface.

Scientists are preparing robotic systems to pave the way for the first human steps on Mars and to ensure smoother missions on ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...

Built to last, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its long journey across Mars, collecting samples and revealing the ...