NASA tests small underwater robots designed to explore icy moons' hidden oceans. The prototype called SWIM, which stands for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers, was constructed at NASA's Jet ...

Astronaut and geophysicist Andrew Feustel is a veteran of three NASA spaceflights and alumnus of Purdue EAPS. Currently he is Lead Astronaut with Vast. He spoke with Lucy Flesch, Frederick L. Hovde ...

Retired NASA astronaut explains how robots could shape space exploration Retired NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore discusses the possibility of robots being a part of space exploration efforts and more on ...

China created a new entity called the “Deep Space Exploration Laboratory” three years ago to strengthen the country’s approach to exploring the Solar System. Located in eastern China, not far from ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a marvel of human engineering, and not even its projected demise is enough to keep companies interested in space experiments away from it. With six years or so ...

The University of Leicester is leading on the development of the UK’s first in-space robotic welding capability. Scientists at Leicester, in partnership with welding specialist TWI Ltd, have secured ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

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

FUTURE space colonists could live inside giant 3D-printed homes on the Moon and Mars – and we might already know what they’ll look like. A Nasa Centennial Challenge tasked star-gazing ...