Driving on the Moon is difficult because lunar dust is made of tiny sharp glassy particles which can get inside moving parts on a rover and has in the past caused the buggies to overheat.

"Our Lunar Voyage 1 MAPP rover successfully made it to the moon, collected data from the lunar surface and in transit, and proved MAPP was ready to drive," U.S. space exploration company Lunar ...

Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission would have seen it become the first U.S. robotic rover on the surface of the moon. It ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived the landing that took out its parent spacecraft and even managed to ...

I truly believe every person out there, at one time in his or her life, wanted to be an astronaut. I was that kid, and ...

The lander includes a drill, a robotic “hopper” and a rover, each of which will explore the moon’s surface and whether there is evidence of water, as well as a 4G communications system ...

It is scheduled to reach its destination, the lunar South Pole, on March 6, and then it will start doing many things for the first time. The rover is not particularly large. It measures just 18 by ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena mission is already over, but silver linings have emerged from the short-lived lunar south pole landing effort. Athena beamed back images from the surface of the moon ...