NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has drilled into another rock and plans are afoot to analyze the pulverized material. Continue reading →

After nine years of hard Mars roving, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has broken a 40-year-old extraterrestrial distance record. Continue reading →

Due to a problem with Mars rover Curiosity's active computer, mission managers decided to switch to a backup computer as a 'safe mode' precaution. ->

There is a largely unexplored alien country that is so close to Earth it would take a beam of light less than two seconds to get there. This is the farside of on moon, often misrepresented and the "dark side" ... ->

The robot that famously pwned in Jeopardy is heading to Wall Street. IBM's Watson, which defeated two of Jeopardy's greatest champions, will be working for Citigroup to analyze big data, Bloomberg reports. IBM expects to generate billions in new revenue by 2015 by putting Watson to work. The techno...

This looks like so much more fun than any final exam I ever took. To show their wits, University of Pennsylvania students designed teams of three little robots on wheels to play hockey against one another. The teams faced off in the coolest test ever, for the rights to something better than any A: ...