On a family ranch near the small Southern Colorado town of Rye, prototype moon rovers are put through their paces. They drive over rocky, dusty terrain and up and down hills as steep as 20 degrees. It ...

The dream of navigating the moon’s rocky surface with advanced rovers is edging closer to reality. As private companies like Lunar Outpost push forward with their lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) projects, ...

NASA is quietly reshaping what surface exploration on the Moon will look like, trading the open buggies of Apollo for a new generation of smart, long-range rovers built for months of work in brutal ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s been more than 18 months since NASA narrowed the field of competitors vying to build the nation’s next moon rover. Ahead of an expected mid-November decision, the three teams ...

WASHINGTON — Astrolab’s first lunar rover will carry four NASA payloads on a mission planned to launch later this year. Astrolab announced May 18 that it had reached agreements with four NASA centers ...

Not long ago, Europe was very close to realizing one of its space exploration dreams: to put the wheels of a home-brewed rover on the surface of the Moon. That mission failed, but the dream is far ...

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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 ...