Today, with a humanoid robot—NASA’s Robonaut 2—aboard the International Space Station, it seems as if the descendants of Joe Slowik’s articulated dummy are hard at work in the real world.

"People might ask, why is NASA developing an underwater robot for space exploration?" said Ethan Schaler, the project's principal investigator at JPL. "It's because there are places we want to go ...

“Sometimes we build robots; sometimes we come in here to build stuff,” added seventh grader Cassidi Phillips. Most recently, NASA celebrated Ashby, along with other teachers from around the ...

Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Sunday ...

With astronauts and NASA staff watching, a team from a Toronto high school presented their Lunar Ejecting Robot prototype at the finals of an educational initiative held at the renowned NASA ...

The Donaldjohanson asteroid imaged by NASA's Lucy spacecraft. NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson ...

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Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut, celebrated his 70th birthday with two cosmonaut crewmates overnight Saturday, undocking from the International Space Station and plunging back to ...