A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

Intuitive Machines has submitted a bid to save NASA's VIPER rover, describing the $84 million savings claimed by the US space agency when cutting it as "a government number."… NASA issued a ...

NASA''s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) has earned its "neck" and "head," aka its "mast," meaning it ...

This campaign, called Send Your Name with VIPER, will see your name sent to the moon’s surface aboard NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) later this year.

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

Engineers tested out the rover on June 28 at NASA Ames, carefully guiding it down a landing ramp just like it will eventually do on the moon. The NASA robot is called VIPER (Volatiles Investigating ...

A test wheel from NASA’s VIPER rover (shown in the inset image) being run through endurance testing in a lab containing lunar soil simulant and some of the most Moon-like rocks on Earth. Credit: ...

Inset: A close look at Micro-Nova. Not to scale with the background image. Credits: Intuitive Machines NASA’s VIPER rover (shown in the inset image) and its reference traverse path in its landing ...

"Can you see the flag the astronauts left there?" This then leads to a discussion on how far the Moon is, versus the ...