Bradley Gartner, a senior at Miami University majoring in Robotics Engineering, stands in front of a rocket engine during his NASA internship at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama ...

The Curiosity rover has entered its teenage years and achieved higher levels of efficiency. Ever since its landing on Mars on ...

NASA’s Robotics Alliance Project was created to bring together students, engineers, private organizations and other government resources to pursue the goal of increasing robotics expertise in ...

A deceptive difference having to do with Earth's and Mars's gravity may be the reason why NASA's rovers get stuck in the ...

When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel—as did the Mars rover Spirit in ...

Thirteen years after Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The ...

Andrew Klesh, Lunar Trailblazer's project systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said: ...

The Robotics Alliance Project is directed by Dave Lavery, program executive for Solar System Exploration and is supported through NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.

Engineers tested out the rover on June 28 at NASA Ames, carefully guiding it down a landing ramp just like it will eventually do on the moon. The NASA robot is called VIPER (Volatiles ...