Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's VIPER, or the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, can be seen in this artist's impression. (Geopix/Alamy Stock ...

An expensive lunar rover that once had its moon trip canceled has a ride once again. NASA has selected Blue Origin to help get VIPER, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, to the moon ...

The only consistent thing about NASA’s VIPER lunar rover is that the road to the moon has been a rocky one. And now the space agency has nixed its attempt to find a commercial partner to launch VIPER ...

An artist’s conception shows NASA’s VIPER rover and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA has selected Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture to help ...

It's back to the drawing board after the space agency called off its plan to launch VIPER with the help of a commercial partner. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s VIPER is designed to search for water ice ...

The vehicle could help make hard-to-reach places on the moon more accessible to exploration. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As ...

In 2024, NASA chose three different companies to build a moon rover for the ambitious Artemis missions. The plan is for only one of these innovative designs to get a multi-billion-dollar NASA contract ...

The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of delivering a payload to the moon in an upcoming mission. NASA’s VIPER lunar rover ...

At issue is the agency’s “Lunar Terrain Vehicle” (LTV) contract. In April 2024, the space agency awarded a few tens of millions of dollars to three companies—Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and ...

An expensive lunar rover that once had its moon trip canceled has a ride once again. NASA selected Blue Origin to help get VIPER, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, to the moon by ...