Hurtling towards the moon right now, safely stored in a garage held against the side of a lunar lander, is a suitcase-sized ...

Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission would have seen it become the first U.S. robotic rover on the surface of the moon. It ...

A tiny commercial rover is set to land near the south pole of the moon today (March 6). Colorado-based space firm Lunar Outpost's Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP, launched aboard ...

Data sent to Earth by its MAPP moon rover on Intuitive Machines' ill-fated IM-2 mission will help Colorado company Lunar ...

Aboard the craft will be several NASA payloads, including a drill and mass spectrometer that will study the lunar South Pole region. There will also be a rover called the Mobile Autonomous ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...

Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents of a return to the moon. The space agency was just $84 million ...

Nokia then hired a company, Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colo., to build a rover that would move a cellphone antenna varying distances from the Athena lander as part of the tests of the technology ...

An earlier version of this article misstated the name of maker of a rover that will go to the moon. It is Venturi Astrolab of Hawthorne, Calif., not Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colo. When we learn of ...

A new collaboration has Lego getting ready to "blast off" with the help of a company now heading for the moon. The Denmark-based toymaker revealed on Friday (Feb. 28) that it is working with Lunar ...

Pakistan’s first-ever lunar rover is set to be launched as part of China’s Chang’E 8 mission in 2028. To celebrate this achievement and engage the nation, the Pakistan Space & Upper ...

[Photo/Xinhua] The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Wednesday unveiled the names of the moon-landing spacesuit and manned lunar rover for the country's manned lunar exploration missions.