Its key task would be to efficiently mine and transport lunar regolith – the loose rocky material covering the Moon's surface ...

It's already underway. A swarm of small swimming robots may search for life on other planets NASA engineers recently completed the first tests of a modern exploration mission concept. This mission ...

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 ...

NASA has built a 6ft 2in “superhero robot" that it named Valkyrie. Robots like this one may be the first to be sent to Mars before humans arrive on the Red Planet, says NASA's Nicolaus Radford.

Not to be mistaken for a spaghetti-legged member of Daft Punk, NASA's Robonaut 2 was actually the first humanoid robot ever sent to space. Clip: And are you sure this guy isn't related to Hal?

Sixteen robots wowed audiences at the Spring Festival Gala, flawlessly performing the Yangge dance with human dancers in ...

Not to be mistaken for a spaghetti-legged member of Daft Punk, NASA's Robonaut 2 was actually the first humanoid robot ever sent to space. Clip: And are you sure this guy isn't related to Hal?

"For serious space exploration, I much prefer robotics," he says. "[They] go much further and do more things." Image source, NASA Image caption, US astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of ...

Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover more about the Sun ... Some scientists question whether human astronauts are going to be needed at all. "Robots ...