Researchers compete to bring humanoid robots to life
Teams of researchers are hoping to give life to a six-foot, 330-pound humanoid robot at the the Robotics Challenge in Homestead, Fla. on Dec. 20 and 21.
Teams of researchers are hoping to give life to a six-foot, 330-pound humanoid robot at the the Robotics Challenge in Homestead, Fla. on Dec. 20 and 21.
Scientists are already receiving and analyzing information coming in from a fleet of tiny satellites launched into space last week.
The International Space Station hit a major milestone today, marking 15 years in space.
Thanks to NASA's now-crippled Kepler space telescope, astronomers say they now know there are tens of billions of potentially habitable, Earth-size planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
Orion, expected to be the first NASA spacecraft to journey into deep space, last week was powered up for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A movement to stop or regulate the development of so-called 'killer robots' got international backing at a meeting of the United Nations this week.
NASA's newly launched lunar probe has begun testing what could eventually become an outer space Internet.
A weaponized robot acting as a member of a squad of U.S. soldiers fighting on the battlefield is no longer science fiction. They may not be two-legged, humanoid robots yet, but they are able to follow troops through a wide range of terrain and back them up in battle.
Two spacewalking cosmonauts Monday are preparing the outside of the International Space Station for the addition of a new Russian lab.
NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them. They want your help doing it.
NASA scientists have seen evidence that there's been sledding on Mars.
Government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, as expected, today fired an IT employee who claimed responsibility for leaking documents that described highly classified government surveillance programs to the media.
After nearly 10 years since it left Earth, NASA's rover Opportunity is about to head out on a new mission -- a weeks-long trek to study a new area on Mars.
Although U.S. government officials said the NSA's efforts to secretly collect phone records of millions of Verizon customers is nothing new, reports about its size confirmed long-standing fears among privacy and civil rights advocates.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is approaching its biggest turning point since landing on the Red Planet last August.