by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, landed on the moon’s near side, partly because of logistical problems landing on the far side. China is now the first and only country with a rover exploring ...

The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun ... as tariffs open doors to crony capitalism Soviet spacecraft plunging back to Earth 53 years after ...

(The Soviet Union had sent a remotely controlled rover to the moon, Lunokhod 1, in 1970.) After the dramatic accomplishments of the 1960s and 1970s, the major space agencies turned their attention ...

Accidental contamination shows how even NASA missions can send resilient Earth microbes to other planets, risking false ...

April 2025 was a busy month for space. Pop icon Katy Perry joined five other civilian women on a quick jaunt to the edge of space , making ...

Welcome to the most ironically overdue rescue mission in human history: saving our barely decades-old galactic garbage before ...

The new building kit is the product of a partnership between the toymaker and a company specializing in lunar surface mobility and space resources. The United States' first teleoperated rover to ...

VIPER won't be flying commercial after all. It seems NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover won't be hitching a ride to the moon as a part of a private sector partnership, as the space agency had ...

A model of the VIPER rover, which was supposed to launch in late 2023. NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA’s VIPER is designed to search for water ice around the Moon’s south pole. But instead of ...

It's not uncommon for space exploration missions to be scrubbed or repurposed, but what the American space agency NASA is doing with a little Moon rover called VIPER is getting ridiculous.

May 7 (UPI) --NASA is exploring alternative ways to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling partnership proposals to land a water-seeking robot on the lunar surface. VIPER, which ...