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 the moon's south pole. As of Thursday afternoon, it was unclear if the ...

Lunar rover tires made from NiTinol, a shape memory alloy (SMA), are strong but pliable, and the "superelastic” material has the ability to withstand tremendous strain — while always returning to the ...

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

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and automaker Toyota are already jointly developing a pressurized lunar rover that they ... far away from the original landing point on the Moon ...

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 ...

Aboard the craft will be several NASA payloads, including a drill and mass spectrometer that will study the lunar South Pole region. There will also be a rover called the Mobile Autonomous ...

TOKYO, JP / ACCESS Newswire / February 25, 2025 / Dymon announced that the YAOKI rover is loaded aboard the Intuitive Machines Nova-C class lunar lander, Athena and is ready to be operated by ...

SpaceX will launch Intuitive Machine’s Athena lunar lander toward the moon’s ... The lander includes a drill, a robotic “hopper” and a rover, each of which will explore the moon’s ...

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 ...