This French-built lunar rover is hoping to spearhead Europe's ambitions in space. Developed by Venturi Space, MONA LUNA aims ...

Pioneering a new deformable wheel design, the Mona Luna rover is designed to withstand harsh lunar temperature swings.

At Paris Air Show, European-based space company Venturi Space unveiled MONA LUNA, a European lunar rover designed for ESA and ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon.

The company Venturi Space France wants to build a European moon rover. Initially for scientific purposes, but other uses are ...

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Communications ceased less than two minutes before the spacecraft’s scheduled landing on the Moon with a mini rover. Until then, the descent from lunar orbit seemed to be going well. CEO and founder ...

The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...

Members of the Iris team have assembled the Iris Lunar Dream Capsule, a tiny payload that will launch aboard Griffin-1, the next lunar lander from Carnegie Mellon spinout Astrobotic. The capsule — ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar ...

The group presented a case study involving a successful lunar rover mobility test conducted in partnership with local startup ...