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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA is continually developing next-generation technologies to explore Mars, and a recent study conducted in Death Valley ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists from the LASSIE project with their quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, New Mexico in August. The quadruped robot was able to scout and train autonomously. The work is part of NASA ...

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 ...