PUFFER is tested in the field, at Antarctica’s Mt. Erebus The robot is good at getting over or under obstacles, so it could be used to get past rough terrain on other planets. Dylan Taylor NASA is ...

NASA has unveiled new microbots which have been inspired by origami and are capable of flattening their wheels to be able to squeeze into small locations that other drones and robots would never be ...

The great explorers Lewis and Clark knew the importance of team expeditions. Now, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California are developing a small scout robot called the ...

At some point, some humans somewhere will take off on a voyage for Mars. Sooner rather than later, a space agency (probably NASA) will investigate the icy worlds of Europa and Enceladus for life. To ...

Exploring other planets in our solar system is obviously a daunting and dangerous task that will require only the bravest souls we can muster here on Earth. But first, before we dispatch any real-life ...

NASA is developing a robot that could go where no robot has gone before: over and under difficult terrain on Mars or another planet. The PUFFER — Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot — could traverse ...