China's Yutu 2 lunar rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander, on the far side of the moon. The 2026 Chang'e 7 mission will also feature a large rover, as well as a lander and a small hopper that ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to the lunar surface. By Kenneth Chang It’s like a confusing game of ...

Intuitive Machines made it to the Moon last year, but its spacecraft fell over. This time it aims to deploy three rovers and a unique "hopping" drone ...

The hopper will carry a water molecule analyzer into permanently shadowed craters. China is preparing to launch a pioneering mission to the moon next year to search for definitive evidence of ...

Grace is a first-of-its-kind technology demonstration as no hopping robot has explored the Moon before. Although Ingenuity, a trusty rotorcraft that explored Mars alongside the Perseverance rover ...

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China is preparing to launch a pioneering mission to the moon next year to search for definitive evidence of water at the lunar south pole. The Chang'e 7 mission will consist of a lander, a rover ...

Three rovers and a first-of-its-kind hopping drone. After becoming the first private firm to land on the Moon last year ... Yaoki, a more compact rover from Japanese company Dymon, is designed ...

safely stored in a garage held against the side of a lunar lander, is a suitcase-sized robotic rover from Colorado. And it's on course to make history, heralding the beginning of a commercial ...

NASA has canceled its VIPER moon rover project. NASA will still send a spacecraft to the moon and pay a company $323 million for the trip. VIPER was supposed to explore the south side of the moon ...