A private Japanese space company said its moon-landing crash earlier this month happened for a different reason than that of ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the ...

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...

Japan spacecraft experiences issues after touching down on moon 00:21. A robotic Japanese moon lander touched down on the lunar surface Friday, but it immediately suffered a power glitch of some ...

TOKYO — A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power. Japan's first lunar mission hit its target in a precision ...

The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission. By Kenneth Chang This is the third moon landing ...

The Japanese company aimed to be the first to change the paradigm for transporting things to the moon, but that will have to wait for a future mission.

Named Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, the spacecraft had targeted the Atlas crater in the northeastern section of the moon’s near side, more than 50 miles across and just over 1 mile deep.

The private Japanese lunar lander is currently in orbit around the moon and targeting a landing for 12:40 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 25 (1640 GMT, or 1:40 a.m. JST on April 26).

A Japanese astronaut will become the first non-American ever to land on the moon, Biden announced Wednesday during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.