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 ...

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 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 ...

Editor’s note: Following is the first of a series of technology-related columns written by Jason Zeng, online specialist for The Montana Standard. The columns will appears twice a month in this spot.

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 ...