While aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim controlled robots on a simulated martian landscape in ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new ...

The distance feat comes as the Mars Perseverance rover reaches another milestone. After nearly five years of roaming the Red Planet, it’s now traveled almost 25 miles. With the help of autonomous ...

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

AI robot on the ISS navigates 50–60% faster using machine learning, marking a major step toward autonomous space missions.

International space agencies are gearing up for an intensive launch schedule in 2026, targeting the Moon, Mars and advanced ...

NASA’s Expedition 74 conducts biomedical, robotics and materials experiments aboard the ISS, including stem cell research, cardiovascular studies and robotic operations to support space science and ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

Kim officially became an astronaut in 2017. Expedition 72 and Expedition 73 marked Kim’s first visit to the ISS, where he served as a flight engineer and flight surgeon for eight months while helping ...

Tests conducted under a Space Act Agreement showed that a thin layer of MetaSeismic material dramatically reduced the force ...

MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the spacecraft, NASA announced in an update on Monday (Dec. 15). And a ...