American space agency NASA awarded space mining company Interlune a $6.9 million contract to trail helium-3 mining tech on ...

Robots are rapidly shifting from supporting characters in spaceflight to the central tools that could make long term life on the Moon possible. Instead of astronauts hauling regolith and assembling ...

Planetary surface missions currently operate cautiously. On Mars, communication delays between Earth and rovers (typically between four and 22 minutes), as well as data transfer constraints due to ...

It may sound like science fiction, but this Israeli technology is currently being developed in Caesarea at the experimental ...

China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the lunar surface. China continues innovating interesting technologies that ...

Thanks to researchers at Georgia Tech, robots have taken several new steps towards replacing human labor – and not simply for ...

The vision of mining space for resources is no longer science fiction. The moon's proximity to Earth and the presence of precious resources make it an increasingly attractive prospect for exploitation ...

A U.S. company is taking what it hopes to be a small step toward eventually mining the moon. Moon Express, based in Mountain View, Calif., just for a small robot spacecraft about the size of a coffee ...