NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and university partners are building a case for sending four-legged robots, modeled on the agility of dogs, to explore the Moon and Mars with minimal human oversight.

USC engineering students were part of the team that developed and trained the robot. (Teo Gonzales / Daily Trojan file photo) In April 2009, a NASA rover was exploring the surface of Mars when it rode ...

A new era of high-speed space exploration may be on the horizon as researchers at the University of Basel have successfully ...

Planetary exploration may be about to get a major speed boost. Researchers tested a semi-autonomous robot that can move from ...