On Jan. 15, a commercial lunar lander launched from Earth carrying the United States' first robotic rover designed to explore ...

A mechanical arm will then lower the garage containing the MAPP rover to the ground. Just by making it off the lander, it will have already ticked off a series of firsts. Perhaps surprisingly, the U.S ...

Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket ... foregoing the need for robot arm-type retrieval systems. A radiation-tolerant computer will be ...

The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.

There will also be a rover called the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP), built by Colorado company Lunar Outpost ... astronaut or some bulky robotic arms.” The AstroAnt’s first ...

During their research, scientists confirmed the presence of the KREEP layer in the far side samples, suggesting that the magma ocean once spanned the entire moon. However, distinct evolutionary paths ...