Antonio Delfino (left), director of space affairs at Venturi Space, shows off a model of the company's Mona Luna rover at the Paris Air Show June 16. PARIS — Venturi Space, a company that has ...

NASA has also been working on autonomous rovers that can explore and excavate on the Moon with minimal human direction. And ...

When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel—as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009—Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of ...

In a windy patch of desert outside Barstow, Calif., a 700-pound planetary rover named Helelani is churning its thick tires through a flour-like dust. Seven teams from around the world are taking turns ...

GITAI's arm would help the rover (illustrated above) perform operations such as regolith excavation, sample collection and handling large payloads like scientific instruments and observation equipment ...

What methods and simulations can engineers use to accurately test rovers that are used on other worlds like the Moon and Mars? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Field Robotics ...

Now, researchers at the Viterbi School of Engineering say that they have created a potential solution: a four-legged, ...

Hurtling towards the moon right now, safely stored in a garage held against the side of a lunar lander, is a suitcase-sized robotic rover from Colorado. And it's on course to make history, heralding ...

Canada has canceled its first-ever moon rover mission, which had been targeted to land near the lunar south pole in 2029.