Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer’s day. The source of these shocks ...

As we push toward the next phase of human space exploration, there’s a lot of focus on using local materials at our final destination. Anything we can find or make on the Moon, Mars, or elsewhere is ...

A robot chemist powered by artificial intelligence could solve the puzzle of providing oxygen to humans on Mars, according to the results of a new study. The study, published in Nature Synthesis, ...

Scientists have developed a new robotic artificial intelligence (AI) “chemist” that could use materials found on Mars to make the Red Planet more habitable. Researchers demonstrated that they could ...

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ...

Rick Chappell, director of Science and Research Communications, director of the Dyer Observatory, and former associate director for science at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville can ...

NASA’s Mars robots receive their commands from the mission team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, but for the next few weeks, communications will fall silent. This is due to ...

One of the most significant obstacles to human interstellar travel is our inability to breathe in the deep recesses of space. Oxygen is essential to life and isn't available in the same capacity as on ...

Recently, the rover has discovered that Mars' atmosphere is electrically active, because it found electrical discharges. The ...

Artificial intelligence is getting its time to shine, for better or for worse. The usage of AI by Hollywood studios was a major sticking point in the months-long actors’ strike, and lawsuits regarding ...