More than 50 teams of undergraduate and graduate students from eight countries will come to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida May 21-26 to take part in the third annual Lunabotics Mining ...

If this year's Lunabotics competition is any indication, there's a bright future ahead for the surface of the moon — and below it. The NASA-hosted challenge recently saw 39 teams of university ...

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 ...

NASA EDGE, an award-winning agency talk show, will host a live webcast from the Lunabotics Mining Competition at 11 a.m. EDT on May 28 from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Astronaut Hall of ...

Thirty-six teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the globe tested their robot designs in a challenge at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida from May 26-28. During ...

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 ...

NASA is challenging U.S. and international undergraduate and graduate student teams to design and build a remote-controlled or autonomous excavator that could be used on the moon. The excavator must ...

SOCORRO, N.M. — A team from New Mexico Tech just took home top prize at a space mining competition. Each team designed and built a robot that can be used for construction projects on the moon as a ...

Army Astrobotics, West Point’s first lunar robotics team, secured a slot as a top-48 team in the NASA LUNABOTICS Robotic Mining Competition. As part of the honor, the team traveled to NASA’s Kennedy ...

For the next two weeks, a little patch of Colorado’s Eastern Plains is, for all intents and purposes, the moon. On a cloudy Monday in Watkins, Colorado, a small town about 24 miles east of Denver, ...

NASA's Artemis Program brings landing, living, and exploring on Earth's moon closer to reality, as the third Space Resources Roundtable at the Colorado School of Mines showed institutions, small and ...