When NASA canceled its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project, it reached out to private companies ...

Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...

But VIPER may not make it off the surface of Earth. Citing budgetary concerns, NASA announced last month it was canceling plans to put VIPER on the moon — even though the agency has spent years ...

Illustration of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter / NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter Lunar scientists were shocked and ...

The plan at the time was to strip the rover for parts and sell them to the interested parties, but someone over at NASA seems to have had a better idea in the meantime. The rover is called Volatiles ...

NASA is continuing environmental tests of the VIPER lunar rover despite uncertainty about whether and if it will launch. Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas LOS ANGELES— NASA is requesting concepts ...

In July NASA announced its intent to erase its planned VIPER lunar rover from its roster of robotic explorers. Slated to launch in 2025, the rover’s primary job was to study water ice near the ...

NASA is continuing environmental tests of the VIPER lunar rover despite uncertainty about whether and if it will launch. Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas WASHINGTON — Intuitive Machines says it ...

A half-billion-dollar rover that could be crucial to US lunar ambitions sits fully assembled but in a state of limbo, mere steps away from being ready for launch.