China could power ahead of the US in the moon race thanks to a few structural differences in its lunar base reactor, engineers say Chinese nuclear engineers have discovered a critical inefficiency ...

Colorado-based company Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover is poised to land today (March 6) near the lunar south pole aboard the ...

The Athena lander currently en-route to the Moon carries with it the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) made by Lunar Outpost ...

Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission would have seen it become the first U.S. robotic rover on the surface of the moon. It ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is ...

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

The mechanism replaces more traditional hydraulic mechanisms, which can be complex in design, and the more ... announced the name of its upcoming lunar rover and suits this month, following ...

This photo shows the exterior design of China's moon-landing spacesuit during the ... the Wangyu moon-landing spacesuit, and ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...

Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents of a return to the moon. The space agency was just $84 million ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived the landing that took out its parent spacecraft and even managed to ...