NASA used Anthropic's Claude for an experiment in plotting the rover's course, which the agency deemed successful.

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

Interlune says it's working on a $150,000 NASA contract to develop the technology for digging trenches and excavating the lunar surface.

At CES 2026, a small, two-wheel rover from South Korea offered a glimpse into how future lunar missions may unfold. The rover, named SCARABS, comes from the Lunar and Planetary Exploration Laboratory ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for astronauts to reach Mars. Water will be an extremely important resource on the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico scientists are contributing to a groundbreaking NASA mission with a rover designed to search for water on the moon’s surface. A team at Sandia National Laboratories ...

If humans finally colonize the Moon, lunar caves formed from primeval volcanic activity could provide shelter from cosmic radiation and extreme temperatures. But how does one go about safely exploring ...

ABB has been awarded a contract by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop the concept for an Autonomous Lunar Exploration Infrared Spectrometer (ALExIS) for Canada's Lunar Utility Rover. Canada is ...

Sending a rover into space to explore other celestial bodies comes with a dizzying array of challenges, and one of the most complex is ensuring the vehicle doesn't break down out there. To largely ...

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In a Rye, Colorado, cattle pasture now subbing for the moon, an otherworldly vehicle bumps along a scrubby course of furrows and mounds, weaving around rocks and kicking up a fine dust. It’s an ...