Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its deployment on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA ...

Scientists created the Mars rover's newest self-portrait by stitching together 59 individual images taken by Perseverance 's ...

(The Soviet Union had sent a remotely controlled rover to the moon, Lunokhod 1, in 1970.) After the dramatic accomplishments of the 1960s and 1970s, the major space agencies turned their attention ...