Keep Roving In preparation for the first crewed lunar mission in half a century, NASA is prototyping a new Moon rover — and ...

NASA engineers at Johnson Space Center are designing a new lunar rover prototype called the Ground Test Unit. The space ...

SORA-Q is an exploration robot developed by the Japanese space agency that was sent to the moon as part of the SLIM Lander ...

Delivered to the Moon's orbit by Soviet spacecraft Luna 17 on November 15, the spacecraft made a soft landing in the Sea of ...

American space agency NASA has created a test bed vehicle called Ground Test Unit (GTU) to help inform the design of the ...

Lofty goals. Also, unsurprisingly, not cheap. According to NASA, the VIPER project has cost $433m so far, well above its ...

When astronauts return to the moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, they will benefit from having a human-rated ...

Leidos is not a direct replacement for Lockheed Martin on the rover project. “Leidos is bringing their own specific set of ...

NASA is looking for a private buyer to take over the project but the buyer will have to perform the original scientific ...

On the underside of the lid was a solar cell array to give power to the rover during the lunar day, while during the long lunar night the rover drew on a polonium-210 radioisotope heater to keep ...

Chandrayaan 3, India's lunar mission, might have landed in a 3.85-billion-year-old crater on the Moon, scientists said on ...