as well as the first private rover on a planetary body. It will deploy from Athena using a mechanism mounted on the lander's side. It will then get to work on the lunar surface with a suite of ...

"Our Lunar Voyage 1 MAPP rover successfully made it to the moon, collected data from the lunar surface and in transit, and proved MAPP was ready to drive," U.S. space exploration company Lunar ...

Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (or MAPP) rover was unable to exit onto the moon’s surface after the lunar lander carrying the rover landed on its side Thursday morning.

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 ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying ...

After becoming the first private company to touch down on the lunar surface last year, Intuitive Machines is gearing up for a second Moon landing near the satellite’s south pole. Hopefully this ...

Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface ... maker of a rover that will go to the moon. It is Venturi Astrolab of Hawthorne, Calif., not Lunar Outpost ...

This photo taken and beamed back to Earth autonomously by a mini rover released from the lander-ascender combination of Chang'e 6 probe shows a view of the combination itself on the lunar surface ...

Blue Ghost is expected to study the moon’s surface for about two weeks until lunar nightfall plunges the landing zone into extreme cold and darkness, making it all but impossible for the largely ...

More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface ... moon's treacherous terrain in ways no rover can. Landing on the moon presents ...