Dante Lauretta has earned four points. He successfully launched a probe on a mission to "journey out to a near-Earth asteroid and retrieve a sample from the surface." He assembled an Atlas V rocket, ...

A proposal for a new, miniature planetary explorer is making its way through the research gauntlet that is NASA, and it's a whole lot bigger than it looks. It builds on still-new research into ...

Is there room on Mars and Europa for cute robots? [NASA] — collaborating with [UC Berkley] and [Distant Focus Corporation] — have the answer: PUFFER, a robot inspired by origami. PUFFER — which stands ...

The latest test flight for Project Morpheus, NASA’s prototype for a flight-capable planetary explorer, was successful! The autonomous vehicle flew a pre-programmed trajectory and performed a hazard ...

Angry bees that fly like mini-missiles could map the futures of unmanned aircraft and planetary explorer robots, thanks to new University of Queensland research backed by the Queensland Government.

In the distant reaches of the Solar System, more than 8 billion kilometres from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at the centre of a dispute over its future. Pluto’s geology is unlike any other ...

The Mars Exploration Rover mission was scheduled to last only three months when Wendy Calvin, University of Nevada, Reno geophysicist, planetary explorer and Science Operations Working Group Chair for ...

WASHINGTON — Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge are testing a prototype planetary explorer that would cover large swaths of alien terrain by hopping from one ...

BELOIT — Dr. Sarah Stewart Johnson, a planetary scientist, astronomer, biologist and geochemist, has been selected at the 2023 recipient of the Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer ...