After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to the lunar surface. By Kenneth Chang It’s like a confusing game of ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is moving ahead with plans to partner with a company to deliver a rover to the surface of the moon after the agency canceled the mission last year. NASA released Feb. 3 an ...

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER ...

Space missions get canceled almost all the time, so nothing spectacular there. But when the American space agency pulls the plug on a project for which it had already spent $450 million, it finds ...

soaring through space with a tiny lunar rover called Tenacious. "After all the testing conducted and mission simulations completed, we're now fully focused on execution as we look to complete ...

Meanwhile, Tokyo-based Ispace sent Resilience, an improved version of the Hakuto-R spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon in 2023. A mini rover is on board, as well as a tiny red artwork called ...

The dimensions ... ispace's M2 Lunar Surface Exploration mission with experiments planned for water electrolyzation, deep space radiation... and a tiny house. The plan is for the rover to find ...

Astrobotic says its Griffin lander will deliver a rover from California-based Astrolab to the moon by the end of the year.In January 2024, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander was launched on a Vulcan ...

The MoU opens doors for Pakistan's first indigenous lunar rover to be part of China's Chang'e-8 mission, set for launch in 2028. The Chang'e-8 mission has been developed and implemented by CNSA ...

Artist's illustration of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander and Astrolab's FLIP rover on the moon. | Credit: Astrobotic/Astrolab Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to ...

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover ...