Space robotics specialist GITAI has completed a concept study for a mechanical arm that would be ready to support Japan’s crewed lunar rover early next decade.

You can watch the Athena moon landing live on Space.com. MAPP is Lunar Outpost's first moon rover. | Credit: Lunar Outpost If all goes well with landing, MAPP — also known as Lunar Outpost's ...

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 ...

The lander is expected to reach the moon's surface on Thursday. Onboard is Lunar Outpost's exploration rover MAPP, or mobile autonomous prospecting platform. "Our flight teams are locked in and me ...

A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar South Pole. Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (or ...

A new collaboration has Lego getting ready to "blast off" with the help of a company now heading for the moon. The Denmark-based toymaker revealed on Friday (Feb. 28) that it is working with Lunar ...

A tiny commercial rover is set to land near the south pole of the moon today (March 6). Colorado-based space firm Lunar Outpost's Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP, launched aboard ...

A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar South Pole. Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform rover ...