Astronomy

Mars Madness: Perseverance rover is about to begin its mission

Every 10 years, planetary scientists put their collective minds together to develop mission recommendations for the decade ahead. The most recent of these decadal surveys, published in 2011, had a ...
MSN on MSN

This tiny rover 'crawled' across the moon during Japan's history-making 'SLIM' mission

A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.
SpaceNews

Astrobotic and Mission Control to partner on lunar rover mission

An engineering model of CubeRover sits on a table as Astrobotic’s Mike Provenzano (right) discusses the partnership with Mission Control at an April 8 briefing with Mission Control’s Ewan Reid ...
Time

NASA's Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk

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Gizmodo

UAE Rover Likely Won’t Join Chinese Moon Mission Due to Decades-Old U.S. Trade Law

It appears that UAE's Rashid 2 rover will not be joining China's Chang'e 7 mission to the Moon owing to a restrictive U.S. law that dates back to the 1970s. Reading time 2 minutes China’s plan to ...
Digital Trends

This Mars rover is looking for a new mission

While it must be incredibly exciting for engineers to be given the task of designing, building, and testing a rover destined for another celestial body, imagine the disappointment if those plans ...