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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists, tribal ...

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 ...

RENO, Nev. — Environmentalists, tribal leaders and others have fought for years against lithium mining ventures in Nevada. Yet opposition to mining one particular desert tract for the silvery white ...