A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a lunar lander from NASA's Kennedy Space ... robot, three separate rovers — and a drill. The drill was designed to burrow roughly three feet below the Moon's ...

A thumb-size $100 robot from the Massachusetts Institute ... course that can simulate the low gravity of the moon or the zero gravity of space, for about 30 seconds at a time.

One of the missions is a commercial lander; it aims to touch down closer to the Moon’s south pole than any previous mission, carrying NASA instruments including an ice-hunting robot drill.

Video of the pneumatic, gas-powered drill developed by Texas Tech University and Honeybee Robotics shows it ... Blue Ghost touched down on the moon. Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

which has been made possible thanks to over 200 students involved with the Space Instrumentation Laboratory (LINX). The mission will land on the Moon in June, and it will release five tiny robots ...