NASA is quietly reshaping what surface exploration on the Moon will look like, trading the open buggies of Apollo for a new ...

HAWTHORNE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab), announced it has reached an agreement with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) for the company to transport Astrolab’s ...

Robots are rapidly shifting from supporting characters in spaceflight to the central tools that could make long term life on the Moon possible. Instead of astronauts hauling regolith and assembling ...

The future of moon exploration may be rolling around a non-descript office on the CU Boulder campus. Here, a robot about as wide as a large pizza scoots forward on three wheels. It uses an arm with a ...

Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the ...

Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck because the surface of the moon is "fluffier” than on Earth, suggests a new study. Researchers reckon they've finally worked out why the multi-million dollar ...

Lunar rover prototypes from (left to right) Astrolab, Intuitive Machines and Lunar Outpost at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for testing. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford A lunar rover makes its way across ...

Mona Luna, the first "100% European-built lunar rover," is being built by Venturi Space and it targets a Moon landing in 2030 ...

Europe's plans to develop a robotic lunar lander are moving ahead with the announcement of an Italy-led consortium that will ...

The VIPER moon mission scrapped by NASA last year could be going ahead after all thanks to Blue Origin, the space agency has announced. There was much dismay last July when increasing costs prompted ...

MADISON — When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel — as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009 — Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, ...

In a scene that could be out of a Pixar movie, two adorable robots crawled across a simulated surface of the moon in search of water. One rover even looks a bit like WALL-E. The excursion is not for ...