Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illiustration of a boxy silver rover on the lunar surface at night. NASA's next moon rover is one step closer to starting its ...

NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover could fly to the moon after all — with some help from the private sector. The agency announced on Monday (Feb. 3) that it's seeking proposals from U.S. companies to ...

VIPER has officially come back from the dead. The NASA moon robot, whose name is short for "Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer Rover," will hitch a ride to the lunar surface with Jeff Bezos' Blue ...

It's not uncommon for space exploration missions to be scrubbed or repurposed, but what the American space agency NASA is doing with a little Moon rover called VIPER is getting ridiculous. Especially ...

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