Explore innovative alternatives to a manned mission to Mars with autonomous robots transforming space exploration. Robotic airships and satellites will fly above the surface of the distant world, ...

Out in the depths of space, in our solar system and beyond, there exist a vast variety of worlds. There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to ...

Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. Researchers are working on creating autonomous spacecrafts that ...

On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover more ...

Currently, my laboratory is replicating creatures such as earthworms, water striders, snails, and wharf roaches in order to develop robots which are capable of performing in extreme environments of ...

In a dark place, wisps of fog drift through a cavernous grey expanse. Suddenly, bright spotlights illuminate the huge concrete hall; like two glowing fingers that push through the darkness and bring ...