See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

In response to NASA's plea for help bringing the cost and complexity of its Mars sample-return program, Rocket Lab has won a ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape ...

Rocket Lab's plan for Mars. Earlier this year, the tiny rocket company that wants to grow up to be SpaceX someday told NASA that, if it's agreeable, Rocket Lab would be happy to perform MSR for it ...

That's how a rover named Rashid from the UAE's space program wound up on board M1. Rashid is set to study moon dust and will send images and data back to Earth.

The rover has previously been referred to by its makers as “UPS for the Moon. With its robotic arm, FLEX can set up its own payloads, acting like a mobile distribution center for the Moon.

There have been two Mars rovers since Opportunity — Curiosity, which landed in August 2012, and Perseverance, which has been roaming the red planet for nearly two years — and each of them have ...

The NASA VIPER rover will explore the south pole of the moon as early as 2024. But first, it has to pass the ramp test. ... The ice, if abundant, could be mined to create rocket propellant.