NASA is officially gearing up for a return to the Moon. And this time the space agency is testing out some sweet new technology to send with its next legion of lunar astronauts. Specifically, they’re ...

The Moon is not the kind of place where you want to get lost, but it can get a little tricky trying to retrace your dusty footsteps without a GPS system in place. Thankfully, space engineers may have ...

As future Artemis astronauts explore the moon, a new high-tech backpack will assist their mapping as they step into the unknown. NASA does have high-definition lunar maps of the surface, from orbit, ...

GPS might be common down here on Earth where humanity has come to take it for granted. But on the Moon, astronauts have no such blessed technology to rely on, so they need something else to help them ...

NASA has released images of a backpack-sized sensor it is developing to help astronauts navigate terrain in future expeditions to the Moon. The Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) is ...

NASA is testing a high-tech backpack containing technology that could be used by astronauts to create highly detailed maps of the lunar surface. Michael Zanetti, a NASA planetary scientist at NASA’s ...

While you might take a water bottle and a few granola bars on your next hiking trip, astronauts walking on the moon need to be a bit more prepared. That’s why NASA has developed a new high-tech ...

The Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) is a mobile lidar scanner, worn as a backpack that uses light and lasers to measure range. NASA researchers and industry partners developed ...

NASA has developed a backpack-sized sensor to help moon astronauts map their surroundings. The sensor would build a 3D map in real-time to help them navigate uncharted or dark terrain. NASA plans to ...