A NASA spokesperson confirmed the moon rock is being returned to the space agency in an email to collectSPACE.com. The lunar sample, which was brought back to Earth by the last Apollo astronauts ...

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 ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon ...

Originally, the plan was straightforward: NASA wanted to send a rover to look for frozen water near the moon’s south pole. It hired a private company, Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh ...

However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...

A NASA spokesperson confirmed the moon rock is being returned to the space agency in an email to collectSPACE.com. The lunar sample, which was brought back to Earth by the last Apollo astronauts to ...

A Pittsburgh company is gearing up for another try at a moon landing.North Side-based Astrobotic says its Griffin lander will deliver an Astrolab FLIP rover to the moon.The FLIP rover, which is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever ...

Two U.S. astronauts are expected to land on the moon in 2026 in Artemis III, the first U.S. moon-landing mission since the end of the Apollo program ... and providing a rover that astronauts ...

Space missions get canceled almost all the time, so nothing spectacular there. But when the American space agency pulls the plug on a project for which it had already spent $450 million, it finds ...