The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years lit up the sky last night as humanity, forever fascinated with the Earth ...

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.

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 ...

and how could the private sector help bring VIPER to the lunar surface? The VIPER rover was designed to help NASA determine the availability of water ice on the moon’s south pole—a region of ...

The fact that NASA is going ahead with VIPER and is trying to arrange for a commercial partner for the lunar rover has broader implications for American space policy as the new Trump ...

The selected company would be required to accept VIPER as is and not dismantle the rover and incorporate its instruments into another vehicle. It would bear the cost of transporting it to the lunar ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...

Once scheduled to prospect for lunar ice aboard the VIPER lunar rover, the Honeybee Robotics TRIDENT ice drill will now only operate from the fixed landing site of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission.

NASA’s VIPER rover was set to play a key role in the search ... examine the availability of water ice in permanently shadowed lunar craters, as these deposits could be critical for sustainable ...

IM-2 is of particular importance given that NASA’s other planned venture into a lunar crater to look for ice, its VIPER rover, was canceled last year. Grace is “the only way right now that ...