In a scene that could be out of a Pixar movie, two adorable robots crawled across a simulated surface of the moon in search of water. One rover even looks a bit like WALL-E. The excursion is not for ...

In an innovative simulation, two rovers from DLR (the German space agency) have been tasked with finding a critical resource on the Moon: water ice. Using advanced technology, including cameras and ...

NASA is developing a new Moon Rover, and this video features a visit to Astrolab, one of the three companies working on the ...

It's not unusual for space missions to be scrubbed, repurposed, or delayed for whatever reasons, but what NASA has been doing over the past year or so with a little Moon rover called VIPER is ...

NASA has decided to give the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Moon rover project another go after canceling the venture last year following delays and budget issues. The mission ...

Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty soil, framed by distant mountains. It might as well be on the moon itself, save for the ...

In 2024, NASA chose three different companies to build a moon rover for the ambitious Artemis missions. The plan is for only one of these innovative designs to get a multi-billion-dollar NASA contract ...

As space agencies race to set foot on the Moon, Mars, and elsewhere, a not-so-glamorous problem could be the key to success: the functionality of a rover’s wheels in alien dirt. When NASA’s Spirit ...