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'Artificial super astronauts': How AI and robotics could help humanity settle Mars

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is of like mind. Earlier this year, Musk said that the company aims to launch a small, ...

NASA Is Exploring Alternative Ways To Retrieve Samples From Mars - Here's What We Know

Getting rovers to Mars was one of NASA's crowning achievements, but now the space agency is looking for different ways to get samples back to Earth.
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NASA will again send a group of researchers to Houston to simulate a Mars mission

Four researchers will spend more than a year in a 3D-printed habitat, acting as though they're eating, sleeping and living on ...

Scientist's best friend: Space-bound robot dog stretches its legs at White Sands National Park

LASSIE (short for Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analogue Environments) is a quadrupedal robot built by engineers at ...
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Meet Amit Kshatriya, the Indian-American Robotics Engineer Leading NASA's Moon & Mars Missions

Indian-Origin Engineer and NASA veteran Amit Kshatriya has been named the new associate administrator of NASA, the agency’s ...

A rock on Mars could suggest that tiny life once existed on the Red Planet, NASA says

NASA's Perseverance rover found a rock with "leopard spots" on the Red Planet that could have been created by ancient ...

NASA student challenge seeks ideas for builder robots on the moon

NASA's 2026 Lunabotics challenge seeks a team or person to create a space robot able to move and build on the Moon's surface ...