The private ispace Resilience lander is ready for a moon landing attempt at 3:17 p.m. ET on Thursday (June 5).

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon. Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. The crash ...

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...

Humanity's fascination with the moon has spawned moon gods and goddesses from Japanese, Hawaiian, Chinese, Aztec, Greek, Indian, Roman, Inuit, and Nordic civilizations spread across the annals of ...

Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

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 ...

That astronaut could very well be Japan’s first moon astronaut. An image of the lunar surface captured by the Orion spacecraft during its 2022 flyby. Image source: NASA.

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

The moon program is part of a growing rivalry with the U.S. — still the leader in space exploration — and others, including Japan and India.

A Japanese-built moon lander called Resilience has crashed during its attempt to softly land on the lunar surface. This was Japan’s second try at reaching the moon with a private spacecraft, and ...

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 ...