On Tuesday (3 June), NASA said: “With this unique capability, RASSOR can traverse the rough surface to dig, load, haul, and dump regolith that could later be broken down into hydrogen, oxygen ...

5-27-15 update: This year’s NASA Robotic Mining Competition was a struggle for Cyclone Space Mining.In the team’s first run in the mining arena, the left linear actuator wouldn’t lift the robot’s ...

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 ...

Houston-based autonomous technology developer Intuitive Machines has won a $47M contract from NASA to build a drilling platform for the agency's lunar water ice search mission.. The agency said ...

Seattle startup Interlune's newly unveiled machine is designed to churn up 110 tons (100 metric tons) of moon dirt per hour to harvest helium-3, a fuel for future fusion reactors.

I’m Ira Flatow. The Trump administration recently proposed a 24% budget cut for NASA, and if it passes, it will be the largest slash to the agency’s budget in a single year ever. The proposal also ...