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 ...

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 ...

An expensive lunar rover that once had its moon trip canceled has a ride once again. NASA selected Blue Origin to help get VIPER, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, to the moon by ...

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 ...

Lunar rover prototypes from (left to right) Astrolab, Intuitive Machines and Lunar Outpost at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for testing. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford A lunar rover makes its way across ...

Space exploration is perhaps the only kind of human activity where failure is not only tolerated but probably recommended. Through explosions on the launch pad, failed lift-offs, or botched landings, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico scientists are contributing to a groundbreaking NASA mission with a rover designed to search for water on the moon’s surface. A team at Sandia National Laboratories ...

A partnership with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company will revive a previously canceled NASA mission to send the VIPER rover to the moon. Credit: NASA NASA just brought back from the dead a science ...