A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar South Pole. Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform rover ...

Japanese lunar exploration company ispace and Chuo University are assessing the feasibility of transporting AI-equipped robots to the Moon to explore lava tubes from 2028 onwards. The project will ...

This artist’s concept depicts a small rover – part of NASA’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration headed for the Moon – on the lunar surface. Motiv ...

You can watch the Athena moon landing live on Space.com. MAPP is Lunar Outpost's first moon rover. | Credit: Lunar Outpost If all goes well with landing, MAPP — also known as Lunar Outpost's ...

A tiny commercial rover is set to land near the south pole of the moon today (March 6). Colorado-based space firm Lunar Outpost's Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP, launched aboard ...

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, entering lunar orbit on Monday, March 3. Photo: Courtesy company Small players have been making big splashes in space. Last weekend ...

The lander is expected to reach the moon's surface on Thursday. Onboard is Lunar Outpost's exploration rover MAPP, or mobile autonomous prospecting platform. "Our flight teams are locked in and me ...

Once scheduled to prospect for lunar ice aboard the VIPER lunar rover, the Honeybee Robotics TRIDENT ice drill will now only operate from the fixed landing site of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission.

On March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost made history, becoming the first commercial lunar lander to successfully touchdown on the moon’s surface. The groundbreaking lander is wasting no ...

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and the Tansuo crewed lunar rover are all in the prototype development stage, with significant progress achieved. The construction of launch-related test and support facilities at the Wenchang ...