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NASA Awards Launch Contract for Water-Hunting Lunar Rover For the first time in years, NASA is gearing up to send humans to the Moon. The agency’s Artemis program aims to have boots on the Moon by 2024, but those boots will necessarily be preceded by wheels. VIPER is one of …

NASA’s Curiosity rover will have been on Mars for five years come this summer, and it’s held up surprisingly well. The rover’s mission has been extended essentially indefinitely. As long as Curiosity can do science, NASA will make use of it. The harsh Martian terrain has not been kind to …

Curiosity has been on Mars for more than four years now, much longer than the primary mission of about 23 months. NASA builds ’em to last, though. Curiosity has sent back a wealth of data from Mars, but it can’t last forever. Indeed, it’s wheels are getting banged up, the …

Boron, a metalloid chemical element with properties intermediate between those of carbon and aluminum, has been identified for the first time on the Martian surface, indicating the potential for habitable groundwater in the ancient past. The highest concentration of boron measured on Mars is in this mineral vein, called ‘Catabola,’ …

Audi has announced that the development of the Audi Lunar Quattro Rover has been completed and the vehicle is ready for the moon. The Audi Lunar Quattro Rover has been developed by Audi and a group of German engineers, the project began back in 2015. “We are proud that we …