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 ...

"Our data paints a clear picture that MAPP survived the landing attempt and would have driven on the lunar surface and ...

A live stream of the event, cohosted by NASA and Intuitive Machines, is set to begin about an hour before landing. If ...

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

Soviet lunar probes had been launched in 1958 ... July 26-August 7: Apollo 15 lands on the moon with a four-wheel drive lunar rover. April 16-27: Apollo 16 lands on the moon and travels almost ...

Hurtling towards the moon right now, safely stored in a garage held against the side of a lunar lander, is a suitcase-sized robotic rover from Colorado. And it's on course to make history, heralding ...

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 ...

Following a successful launch of Intuitive Machines' lunar lander, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remembered the Soviet reaction to Apollo 10 ... the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and ...

Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket as part of a ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena mission is already over, but silver linings have emerged from the short-lived lunar south pole landing effort. Athena beamed back images from the surface of the moon ...

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 ...