NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

UMass Lowell students and researchers are programming one of only four robots in the world that NASA hopes will allow us to one day live on Mars. For the next two years, “Val,” short for Valkyrie, ...

NASA's NIAC program is investing in visionary ideas that could revolutionize space exploration. From fusion-powered ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA originally created its Valkyrie robot to compete in a competition for search-and-rescue robots. Now the organization is trying to make Valkyrie better ...

NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it ...

A new robot is set to capture the first global images of Earth's magnetic field "breathing" in and out from the surface of the moon, NASA has announced. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray ...

The American space agency (Nasa) says it will send its 2020 Mars rover to a location known as Jezero Crater. Nasa believes the rocks in this nearly 50km-wide bowl could conceivably hold a record ...

Part Transformer, part Star Wars stormtrooper and with hands that look like they can crush beer cans, at 1.8 metres tall and weighing 120 kilograms, NASA’s Valkyrie robot is an intimidating figure.

Siemens board member Siegfried Russwurm tells the Journal about how the German firm designed, developed and tested NASA's latest Mars exploration robot "Curiosity" without building a prototype.