Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...

In 1963, NASA and General Motors built MOLAB, a massive pressurized rover meant to support two-week traverses and the first permanent lunar base. Then budgets, weight limits, and shifting priorities ...

NASA’s water-hunting lunar rover was given a second chance to reach the surface of the Moon. Blue Origin will deliver VIPER to the Moon on an upcoming lunar lander mission, resurrecting 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 ...

HOUSTON — A space company belonging to one of the world’s richest men will ferry a Houston-built rover to the moon in 2027. A NASA spokesperson told the Houston Business Journal this week that Kent, ...

NASA paid a total of $38 million for the four Apollo lunar rover vehicles, which includes the cost of development, testing, and building the rovers. The original contract was for $19 million, but cost ...

Lighting conditions around Shackleton Crater captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University NASA is looking into the adoption of light detection and ranging ...

NASA and the Department of Energy signed an agreement earlier this week committing to put a nuclear reactor on the moon in ...