See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA ...

This clip features Carnegie Mellon University's new robot that is headed for Mars. Science and technology contributor and former astronaut, Dr. Jay Apt, learns about Carnegie Mellon University's new ...

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 ...

The slowest part of a Mars mission is often not the driving, it is the waiting. A rover can only do so much when every move must be planned from Earth, then checked, then sent back across a gap that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A humanoid Nasa robot being prepared for Mars will return to the US after a decade at a Scottish university. The robot, named ...

A crew on the Moon is roughly three days from Earth and can abort home. A crew bound for Mars is seven to nine months out, ...

We will soon get to a point where the human race will expand to other celestial bodies in the solar system. The prime targets for colonization are the Moon and Mars, and plans are already being ...

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 ...