The events of “Alien: Earth” stem from a proprietary battle between Weyland-Yutani, the film franchise’s star corporation, ...

Crew cooperation will always be vital in any manned space exploration mission, even if some of those crewmembers are not human.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers are using machine learning to train a robot to recognize a jumbled pile of items, locate the one item it needs and retrieve it in the most ...

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 ...

If nuclear-powered spaceflight is ever realized, there will be a need for new types of robots to perform dangerous maintenance tasks.

But what does that mean for future generations of budding astronauts – and surely there are certain functions that humans can do in space but which robots, however advanced, never could?

From asteroid mining to on-orbit servicing, autonomous robots are key to the future of space exploration and defense.

Future robots may cooperatively explore alien worlds.Scientiststoday can only dream of having a robotic explorer like EVE from the Disney/Pixarfilm ?WALL?E.? But some researchers are working on ...

Smart robots building space stations in orbit may be in the future, but there are plenty of other examples of how smart robots and automation are becoming critical to the future of spaceflight.