NASA’s nearly complete yet canceled lunar rover VIPER isn’t going to get carried to the moon by a private space exploration company—but it’s also not quite dead yet ...

The space agency has reportedly canceled its Resource Prospector — a small rover that was designed to excavate materials such as hydrogen, oxygen, and water from the lunar poles. The move has ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

There were no survivors. In 1999, NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the moon with the hopes of discovering evidence of water. Researchers said it didn't reveal any ...

VIPER, about the size of a golf cart, would have prospected the lunar south pole for water ice in the soil with the aim of creating resource maps for future missions to the Moon. The craft would have ...

In 1999, the Lunar Prospector orbited the moon, confirming Clementine’s discovery of ice at the lunar poles, a resource that could be crucial for any long-term lunar settlement. The mission's ...

APL's David Lawrence, Patrick Peplowski and Jack Wilson, along with Rick Elphic from NASA Ames Research Center, used orbital neutron data from the Lunar Prospector mission to build their map.

On July 31, 1999, NASA crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon to ends its successful mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface. The Lunar Prospector was launched in ...

When it launched, LRO was NASA's first lunar orbiter since Lunar Prospector in 1998. LRO was launched as an initial step and support for NASA's Constellation program, which planned to put humans ...

In 1998, NASA's Lunar Prospector mission launched with a small capsule containing the ashes of Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer in planetary geology. NASA intentionally crashed the spacecraft into the ...

An earlier NASA mission, the 1998 Lunar Prospector, had found evidence that the highest concentration of ice was in the south pole's shadowed craters. India's much-awaited moon mission Chandrayaan ...