7-28-14 Update: There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to ...

In a side hallway on the third floor of Newell-Simon Hall, you can find a lab space filled with motors, sensors, sheets of carbon fiber, and a shelf of busy ...

NASA EDGE, an award-winning agency talk show, will host a live webcast from the Lunabotics Mining Competition at 11 a.m. EDT on May 28 from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Astronaut Hall of ...

SOCORRO, N.M. — A team from New Mexico Tech just took home top prize at a space mining competition. Each team designed and built a robot that can be used for construction projects on the moon as a ...

Editor’s note: Following is the first of a series of technology-related columns written by Jason Zeng, online specialist for The Montana Standard. The columns will appears twice a month in this spot.

NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it possible ...