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 ...

As Artemis astronauts walk on the moon, these NASA backpacks will chronicle lunar features in context. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

NASA KNaCK is a new venture for the company, and it is a wearable technology for astronauts that is essentially a lunar backpack that would bring a navigation system for those venturing the Moon. It ...

NASA and partners are developing backpack-sized technology for future Moon explorers that will allow them to map and navigate the lunar surface in the darkness of the high polar regions to within a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For most of us, summer is the season of outdoor adventures, so that we have something to get nostalgic about during those cold, endless winters. But there is one annoying drawback to exercising in any ...

Ordinarily, a backpack is something that you take off if you're getting too hot. The NASA-inspired Honu, however, is claimed to actually make its user feel up to a total of 20º F (11º C) cooler than ...