The three-module Tiangong was completed in late 2022 and has been constantly occupied ever since, with three-person crews ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

Some scientists question whether human astronauts are going to be needed at all. "Robots are developing fast, and the case for sending humans is getting weaker all the time," says Lord Martin Rees ...

SpaceX chief Elon Musk says the Starship rocket will put Tesla’s Optimus robot on Mars in 2026, followed by human landings ...

In the future, robots could actively assist astronauts onboard space stations to conduct complex tasks. Towards this, astronauts aboard China’s Tiangong space station have been conducting ...

MAPP, built by the Colorado company Lunar Outpost, will touch down aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander at 12:32 p.m. ET ...

NASA’s trio of autonomous rovers is heading to the Moon as part of the CADRE mission, a groundbreaking experiment in robotic teamwork. These suitcase-sized explorers will operate independently, using ...

The METERON SUPVIS experiments – a collaboration between DLR and ESA – demonstrate the control of intelligent robots on planetary surfaces by astronauts in orbit. Rollin' Justin at the DLR Institute ...

In a recent video chat with earthlings, NASA astronaut Nick Hague talked about ... Hague grabbed a 50-pound (23-kilogram) robot and let it just float around him. “Because it floats, we can ...

China's Shenzhou 19 astronauts experiment with the AI robot Xiao Hang aboard the Tiangong space station in March 2025. | Credit: CCTV Meanwhile in orbit, the Shenzhou 19 crew currently aboard ...