Michelin has developed a new lunar wheel for the next generation of NASA moon rover vehicles. The structurally supported tire and wheel assembly, made of breakthrough composite materials, was jointly ...

In just a few days, ORNL researchers used powder bed printing to create this lunar rover wheel based on a NASA design. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in ...

Michelin has developed what looks like a tire but is actually a wheel that's capable of surviving the moon's harsh environment. The wild-looking wheels, which can withstand extreme temperatures and ...

Not long ago, Europe was very close to realizing one of its space exploration dreams: to put the wheels of a home-brewed rover on the surface of the Moon. That mission failed, but the dream is far ...

Europe's dream of flying a home-brewed rover to the Moon ended abruptly when the Japanese ispace lander called Resilience, which carried the Tenacious rover, crashed into the Moon on June 6, 2025. Ok, ...

The Artemis mission is aiming to put astronauts back on the moon, but first, they’ll need a rover to camp around in. NASA teamed up with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to test a ...

Japanese tire maker Bridgestone is showing off two new lunar rover tire concepts at the 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Yes, they basically look like airless puncture-proof tires currently ...

Crowdsourcer HeroX and NASA’s upcoming “Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge” is inviting teams to use NASA’s MicroChariot Rover as a testbed for the design and testing of wheel and tire concepts for ...