The China National Space Administration has recently set up a new internal department to facilitate the development of the country's commercial space sector. The establishment of the department of ...

Goodyear is developing tires for a lunar terrain vehicle that will carry humans to the moon's south pole for the first time in 2028. The project, part of NASA's Artemis program, includes partnerships ...

An Orion spacecraft approaches a Blue Moon Mark 2 lander prototype, part of the planned Artemis 3 mission. Credit: NASA HOUSTON — NASA has provided more details about the revised approaches that Blue ...

Over two years after Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission deployed a tiny, shape-shifting rover on the Moon, the country’s space agency JAXA has finally revealed previously ...

The rover, named SORA-Q, had extending wheels, a flip-up camera and a transforming tail. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A Japanese robot navigated the Moon's surface, beaming video back to Earth. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) deployed the robotic unit after landing on the lunar ground. Once released, ...

Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2), a lunar robot from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), could have been plucked from a science-fiction movie. It’s small—about the size of a baseball—it’s ...

On January 19, 2024, a tiny, spherical rover called SORA-Q arrived on the Moon and unfurled itself into two halves to deploy wheels on each side. The miniature-sized robot, which could fit snugly into ...

When the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft, nicknamed the "Moon Sniper," face-planted onto the lunar surface in 2024, an experimental rover told Earth scientists what ...

NASA announced the four astronauts that will join the next Artemis mission — a test flight vital to putting astronauts back on the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. NASA has announced ...