A Mini Moon Rover from the Toy Company That Created Transformers Japan’s space agency, JAXA, hired Takara Tomy to design a rolling lunar robot called SORA-Q. It’s now en route to the moon.

An astronaut figure, lunar rover, science station, antenna and moon rocks are among the accessories in Playmobil's Starter Pack Space Mission, co-branded with the Europan Space Agency.

On board Japan’s “Moon Sniper” spacecraft is a little robot with a big mission: to pop open like a Transformer toy, wiggle across the lunar surface and beam images back to Earth.

Using 3D printing technology, ESA scientists shaped the meteorite dust into bricks resembling classic 2x4 LEGOs. These bricks are rougher than LEGOs but can stack and be assembled into structures ...