NASA's VIPER, or the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, can be seen in this artist's impression. The only consistent thing about NASA’s VIPER lunar rover is that the road to the moon has ...

It seems NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover won't be hitching a ride to the moon as a part of a private sector partnership, as the space agency had previously sought. “We appreciate the efforts of those ...

The VIPER moon mission scrapped by NASA last year could be going ahead after all thanks to Blue Origin, the space agency has announced. There was much dismay last July when increasing costs prompted ...

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

With NASA’s Artemis mission planning to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, there’s a new buzz about lunar exploration. Space agencies around the world are developing ...

NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission, initially set to explore the moon’s south pole for ...

The $450 million VIPER (volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) was designed to search Earth’s Moon for ice and other potential resources. NASA cited cost increases and launch delays as ...

The VIPER program is now canceled by NASA after as much as five years since it was first announced, and this was because the mission faced massive delays and losses along the way. NASA's goal for the ...

NASA has released a video showing off the latest prototype of its VIPER moon rover. Short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, VIPER will search for ice and other resources when it ...

Space News reports that NASA has stopped work on the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). The space agency has run out of money and, absent a last-minute salvation by Congress or ...

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 from ...

NASA’s boxy four-wheeled rover won’t make it to the Moon after all, due to development delays and mounting costs that have apparently pushed the space agency to call off its ice-hunting mission. VIPER ...