Intuitive Machines said its latest spacecraft crashed inside a crater 250 meters from its intended landing site. Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission would have seen it become the first U.S ...

However, the IM-2 mission missed its landing spot by some 800 feet, landing in a crater it hadn't planned for and ending up on its side—despite IM claiming that wouldn't happen again.

Athena beamed back images from the surface of the moon despite landing sideways on March 6. This unhelpful orientation meant, however, that the lander could not generate power due to the position ...

If all goes well with landing, MAPP — also known as Lunar Outpost's Lunar Voyage 1 — will be the first American robotic rover on the moon, as well as the first private rover on a planetary body.

Mars' Deimos moon, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover. NASA Once in a while, you might look up and marvel at magnificent views of our moon, its surface dramatically lit by our sun’s light.

Using open-source software, experts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison figured out a testing flaw that often led to rovers getting stuck on alien surfaces.

Landing on another body in the Solar System is a tough business. Despite many successful touchdowns throughout history, ...

The moon's surface posed several challenges for GM and Boeing when designing the Lunar Rover's wheel system. With a surface temperature range of 500 degrees Fahrenheit, abnormally soft soil ...

The MAAP rover was supposed to be deployed by the Intuitive Machine's Athena lander after its touchdown on the moon on March 6. However, the IM-2 mission missed its landing spot by some 800 feet ...

Aug. 6, 2012 — -- Curiosity, NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover, has made a safe landing on the surface of the red planet after an eight month, 352-million-mile journey.NASA ...

They knew it was a long shot: since 1997, every attempt to return to the red planet had crashed, disintegrated, or simply disappeared without a trace. But for Prof. Steven Squyres, astronomy; Prof ...