[Virginia Tech] Modern space exploration hasn’t quite reached Star Trek levels of boldly going where no one has gone before. But if, like the denizens of the USS Enterprise, astronauts […]
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Icy Ocean Planet Recon: Saildrone Research Fleet To Circle Antarctica For 5 Years
Editor’s note: As we plan to use robotic probes such as Saildrone to explore worlds in our solar system with oceans, missions that explore Earth’s oceans can serve as important […]
Posted inMars
European Rover Trains For Mars In The Desert
[ESA] The exercise was an important rehearsal for what the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover might encounter when it lands on the Red Planet in 2030. It brought together a rover […]
Posted inMars
A Journey To The Depths Of Ancient Mars?
[NASA/Alex Jones] After spending the last six months exploring “Lac de Charmes,” a region of ancient rock beyond Jezero crater’s western rim, Perseverance has stumbled upon a vast field of […]
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Curiosity Rover Catches A Stunning Martian Dawn
[NASA] A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs, highlighting features the mission’s scientists have long been waiting […]
Space Robotics Workshop at IROS 2026
As robotics and AI become increasingly important to how we explore, build, operate, and conduct science beyond Earth, support like this helps us bring together the space and robotics communities […]
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One Way To Land Astrobiology Droids On Mars
[NASA]. This image taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover’s now-empty lander, the Challenger Memorial Station, at Meridiani Planum, Mars. The image was […]
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Robotic Lava Tube Mapping And Multimodal Data Collection Using Quadruped And LiDAR
[Frontiers in Robotics and AI]. As part of TU Delft Rhizome 2.0 and Moonshot projects, focusing on the development of extraterrestrial habitats in lava tubes, the robotic mapping of an […]
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Solid-state Propulsion for Autonomous Reconnaissance of Karst (SPARK)
[NASA/NIAC] While karst terrain and subsurface caves are sites of immense scientific value on bodies like Titan, they are difficult or impossible to safely explore using current methods.
Robotic One-Shot Exploration from Deep Ocean to Deep Space Workshop
Workshop Date: Thursday, October 1 (full day) Conference Dates: September 27 – October 1, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Many of the most compelling environments for scientific discovery are also among the […]