The "soil" blanketing the moon's surface isn't actually soil. It's a fine, lethal, abrasive powder of shattered rock and ...

Mars rovers are robotic vehicles designed to explore the surface of the Red Planet. Since 1997, space agencies have sent a ...

A retro-futuristic space truck and a nimble crustacean on wheels just won a competition to deploy on a future NASA Artemis ...

NASA announced which two companies would be tasked to build lunar rovers for its future moon base as well as the company that ...

Astrolab's FLIP rover, launching from Kennedy Space Center this year, will carry NASA science and tech to the moon, all in ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Astrolab’s first lunar rover will carry four NASA payloads on a mission planned to launch later this year. Astrolab announced May 18 that it had reached agreements with four NASA centers ...

NASA has shared a fascinating animation showing the route taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars since its arrival there in February 2021. Perseverance is NASA’s most advanced Mars rover to date, and ...

Airbus has tested two of its Mars rover models in a quarry near London. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. European aerospace giant ...

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, issuing a series of ...