The company said the grant will help rapidly assess subsurface structures, optimise landing site selection, rover navigation, infrastructure planning, and enhance potential resource estimation.

Driving around the Moon on a lunar rover isn’t like driving around on roads on Earth, after all, the potholes are certainly a much bigger concern up there. However dust is also an issue, which is why ...

NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission, initially set to explore the moon’s south pole for ...

A Pittsburgh company is gearing up for another try at a moon landing. North Side-based Astrobotic says its Griffin lander ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

Astrolab has a contract with SpaceX to transport a larger rover, the Flexible Logistics and Exploration rover, in December of ...

Today, Venturi Astrolab (Astrolab) and Astrobotic announced that Astrobotic’s Griffin lander will deliver an Astrolab rover ...

However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...

China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the ...

As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, VIPER will be equipped with instruments to explore the lunar surface, particularly to ...

NASA is seeking a new owner for its Moon rover after canceling plans to send its robotic mission to the lunar surface in search of ice.