Five new European astronauts and the first astronaut from the Australian Space Agency are now ready to "hop" into their first flight assignments, having completed basic training. The European Space ...

New balloon-mounted space radiation probes developed by the Surrey Space Center at the University of Surrey have captured ...

The Rocket City Space Pioneers (RCSP), the Huntsville, Ala.-based team vying for the Google Lunar X Prize, is taking a close look at Draper Laboratory’s lunar hopper design as a possible backup ...

Apollo mission astronauts who visited the moon between 1969 and 1972 found a hopping motion useful for navigating its surface, where the gravity is one-sixth of Earth’s. Today, robots are playing a ...

PARIS – Researchers from the Space Research Center at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, are developing a conceptual design for a Mars hopping vehicle propelled by a radioisotope thermal ...

Stoke Space shared stunning new photos from a recent flight test of the company's reusable rocket. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

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Small rovers that hop from place to place are being developed for future Mars missions. Powered by nuclear energy, they could map the entire planet in a few years. Small rovers that hop from place to ...

"We embark on a new era in European astronaut history." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Five new European astronauts and the ...