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Lunar Outpost just raised $30 million to develop Pegasus, a sleek new moon rover that will help build humanity's first permanent lunar base. The Colorado company now has more moon rovers assigned to missions than all other commercial companies combined.
A British watchmaker is sending a timepiece to the moon's surface aboard a lunar rover later this year, beating major Swiss brands to the lunar comeback. The mission will test both cutting-edge robotics and whether a mechanical watch can tick on the moon.
NASA just awarded $220 million to build Pegasus, a next-generation lunar rover that will help astronauts explore hundreds of square miles around the Moon's south pole. The sporty buggy can survive freezing crater temperatures and drive itself when astronauts aren't behind the wheel.
NASA just showed off the first rovers and landers heading to the moon's south pole, bringing us closer to a permanent lunar base by 2030. Two private companies won contracts to build solar-powered vehicles that will scout terrain before astronauts arrive.
Hundreds of students from 44 teams worldwide spent nine months designing and building lunar rovers, then raced them through a NASA obstacle course in Alabama. The annual challenge gives young people real space engineering experience with support from NASA experts.
A spectacular full moon will grace May Day skies, offering stargazers across North America the perfect excuse to look up at dusk. Even better news: May delivers two full moons this year, making the second one a rare blue moon.
America is building its first permanent outpost on the Moon, with three missions launching in 2026 to prepare for astronauts living and working at the lunar South Pole. NASA just awarded contracts for lunar rovers that will help humans explore farther than ever before.
NASA just announced sweeping contracts worth hundreds of millions to build humanity's first permanent lunar base, complete with rovers, drones, and landing infrastructure. The ambitious plan includes over a dozen missions starting this year to establish a base spanning hundreds of square miles near the Moon's South Pole.
A tennis ball-sized Japanese robot successfully explored the moon on its own, transforming from a sphere into a two-wheeled rover. The adorable SORA-Q marks a new era of small, smart robots that can reach places larger rovers can't.
A private space company is about to send the first commercial lunar rover to the Moon carrying four NASA experiments that could unlock secrets about future moon bases. The mission launches later this year, marking a new era of public-private space exploration.
NASA just announced three robotic Moon missions launching this year to test new landers and rovers, bringing us closer to a permanent lunar base. These missions will pave the way for astronauts to return to the Moon in 2028.
India's Chandrayaan-3 rover discovered that soil near the Moon's South Pole matches a meteorite found in Antarctica 44 years ago, solving a cosmic mystery. The breakthrough confirms theories about the Moon's ancient molten ocean and shows how asteroid impacts reshaped its surface.
America is racing back to the Moon with three robotic missions launching by late 2026, all designed to help build the first permanent lunar outpost. NASA's ambitious Moon Base program will test commercial landers, rovers, and autonomous systems before astronauts return to stay.
A Soviet lunar rover that went silent in 1971 was rediscovered in 2010, and its laser reflector still bounced signals back to Earth perfectly. The discovery proved that some technology, built right the first time, can survive decades in the harshest conditions imaginable.
Less than two months after astronauts flew around the moon, NASA is already ordering landers, rovers, and drones for humanity's first lunar base. The space agency just awarded hundreds of millions in contracts to make permanent moon living a reality by the 2030s.
This Wednesday's full pink moon could mark the start of humanity's return to deep space after 50 years. Four astronauts are preparing to launch during a historic window that opens April 1.
A rover company and a mining startup are teaming up to harvest a rare element from the lunar surface, with testing starting this year. As SpaceX and NASA ramp up Moon missions, the dream of extracting valuable resources from space is becoming real.
A tiny transforming robot the size of a baseball just proved that space exploration doesn't need to be supersized. Japan's adorable LEV-2 rover successfully explored the moon in 2024, and the results show it could change how we send robots to space.
A BB-8-sized rolling robot saved Japan's moon mission by photographing the crash-landed spacecraft and beaming critical images back to Earth. The palm-sized rover's success shows how tiny, transforming robots could revolutionize future space exploration.
NASA is building humanity's first lunar base, ordering landers, rovers, and drones just weeks after astronauts completed a record-breaking moon flyby. The base could host permanent crews by the 2030s, paving the way for Mars missions.
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