Colorado-based company Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover is poised to land today (March 6) near the lunar south pole aboard the ...

The MAPP will also be the first rover at the Lunar South Pole and the first purely commercial rover to ever land on another planetary body. Once it begins roving the lunar surface, the MAPP will ...

The Athena lander currently en-route to the Moon carries with it the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) made by Lunar Outpost ...

Government of India approved the Chandrayaan-5 mission, in collaboration with Japan Space Agency JAXA, which will carry 250kg Rover to study the Lunar surface.

The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Since the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft launched in late February as a rideshare spacecraft along with a Falcon 9 launch, NASA has been providing a series of increasingly worrisome updates about the ...

The rover landed in Utopia Planitia ... said Aaron Cavosie, a planetary scientist and senior lecturer at the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.

the first commercial rover to operate on another planetary body. MAPP will make history as the first rover to explore the Moon’s South Pole, a region critical to future lunar infrastructure and ...

Especially in planetary exploration, these disadvantages mean that these systems cannot be realised in current and near-future missions. The DLR "Scout" rover therefore uses a novel, flexible spoked ...

The rover, which operated from May 2021 to May ... that weren't visible from the surface," said Guangzhou University planetary scientist Hai Liu, a member of the science team for China's Tianwen ...