After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

Astrolab has a contract with SpaceX to transport a larger rover, the Flexible Logistics and Exploration rover, in December of ...

By deploying the FLIP rover on Griffin-1, we are advancing humanity's future on the Moon and enabling groundbreaking U.S.

A Pittsburgh company is gearing up for another try at a moon landing. North Side-based Astrobotic says its Griffin lander ...

Pittsburgh space company Astrobotic will get another chance to land on the Moon after its first attempt fell short. Why it ...

However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology managed to orient its lander toward the sun so the solar panel could collect sunlight and charge its battery, as a special team assessed the status of what ...

In this image released by Astrobotic Technology, an image from a mounted camera shows a disturbed section of insulation on the Peregrine lander, while on its way to land on the moon, Monday, Jan ...

The lander, named Peregrine, will have no one on board. It was developed by American company Astrobotic, whose CEO John Thornton said it will carry Nasa instruments to study the lunar environment ...

Now, though, the spacecraft is barreling back toward Earth, and while the team is sure it could keep it from burning up, Astrobotic’s latest Peregrine update says that it is safer to let the ...