NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission, initially set to explore the moon’s south pole for crucial water ice deposits, faced a significant setback when it was ...

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...

NASA has canceled plans to launch a Moon rover called VIPER, which was scheduled to launch later this year, due to supply chain and budget restraints. VIPER, which stands for Volatiles ...

That was originally intended to carry NASA’s VIPER lunar rover, but NASA elected last summer to cancel VIPER, citing cost overruns and delays. Astrobotic will instead deliver a commercial rover ...

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...

NASA is inviting private companies to collaborate on deploying the VIPER moon rover, initially halted due to budget constraints. The rover, designed to locate lunar water ice, was previously set ...

IM-2 is of particular importance given that NASA’s other planned venture into a lunar crater to look for ice, its VIPER rover, was canceled last year. Grace is “the only way right now that ...

and engaged industry in new ways to secure a public/private partnership for NASA's VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission on the Moon. "It has been an honor to serve NASA ...

The mission was part of a NASA program known as Commercial Lunar Payload Services ... drill that is installed on the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. The golf-cart-size rover ...