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

The Athena lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday morning, and the MAPP rover on board could be the first to explore ...

On Jan. 15, a commercial lunar lander launched from Earth carrying the United States' first robotic rover designed to explore ...

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

USA TODAY reached out to NASA on Friday but has not received a response. Intuitive Machines' original lunar lander, Odysseus, also toppled onto its side after coming in hot and fast during a moon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the NASA instruments are the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1, or PRIME-1, which comprises a drill and mass spectrometer to explore the Moon’s subsurface for traces of water ice. The ...