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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan's Nozomi planetary explorer is in a critical phase as ground controllers attempt to overcome a persistent electrical problem that threatens to turn the mission into a bust. The spacecraft is to ...