Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs.

As advances in artificial intelligence and robotics accelerate, humanoid robots could be capable of exploring other worlds ...

You can't joystick a robot on Mars in real time. Radio signals from Earth take up to 22 minutes to arrive. This simple fact has stalled space construction for decades. The dream of building in space ...

NASA's ex-Administrator told Congress the U.S. is in danger of losing the new space race to the Moon due to SpaceX's cascading delays in perfecting its Starship lunar lander. (Photo by Loren ...

The Mars rover Curiosity has a busy schedule ahead of it for its second full day on the Red Planet. Curiosity is a car-size, $2.5 billion rover designed to investigate whether Mars was ever habitable ...

Planetary surface missions currently operate cautiously. On Mars, communication delays between Earth and rovers (typically between four and 22 minutes), as well as data transfer constraints due to ...

Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.

Can autonomous robots help cut space exploration times? This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Space Technologies hopes to address as a team of scientists from Switzerland and the ...

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