For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the ...

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after ispace's lander slammed into the moon. The ...

The space agency is inviting the public to design next-generation, moon-ready tires for future space missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Now's your chance to help craft the Artemis program's Lunar Terrain Vehicle. By Andrew Paul Published Sep 4, 2025 2:48 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.

NASA reinstated the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission, awarding Blue Origin a contract to deliver the rover to the Moon's South Pole in late 2027. The $190 million ...

Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lander will deliver NASA’s VIPER lunar rover to the moon under a CLPS task order awarded Sept. 19. Credit: Blue Origin PARIS — NASA has revived a robotic lunar rover ...

VIPER has officially come back from the dead. The NASA moon robot, whose name is short for "Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer Rover," will hitch a ride to the lunar surface with Jeff Bezos' Blue ...

NASA is apparently giving its ice-scouting moon rover mission another try. The space agency has announced that the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project — which was called ...