The Lunar Electric Rover (LER) has spent the last couple weeks wandering about this wasteland simulating a search for lost crew members in a trial that's putting the modern plug-in electric car ...

American space agency NASA is looking for a U.S. company to fly the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) ...

Originally, the plan was straightforward: NASA wanted to send a rover to look for frozen water near the moon’s south pole ... technologies like batteries, motors, power systems and communications.

"NASA is looking forward to partnering with U.S. industry to meet the challenges of performing volatiles science in the lunar ...

VISITORS to the Moon could race across the planet’s surface in an “extreme” car dropped there by Elon Musk. That’s the vision of a Nasa-backed company that is working on a ...

So how did NASA manage to build an electric Moon rover that could operate ... silver-zinc batteries were used—a far cry from the 80+ kWh battery packs of modern cars. Silver zinc batteries ...

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER ...

Elon Musk, through his company SpaceX, signed a contract with Lunar Outpost to send an innovative lunar vehicle to the Moon's ...

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Astrolab's FLIP moon rover has replaced NASA's VIPER vehicle on the first-ever mission of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander, ...