NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools into autonomous partners tasked with keeping crews alive far from home.

Elon Musk’s Mars plan may depend on more than rockets — it may depend on robots. The Tesla Bot could become the ultimate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Image from NASA showing the Tharsis face of Mars, a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in the western hemisphere ...

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 ...

USC engineering students were part of the team that developed and trained the robot. (Teo Gonzales / Daily Trojan file photo) In April 2009, a NASA rover was exploring the surface of Mars when it rode ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, ...

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 ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

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 ...