Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

The private ispace Resilience lander will land on the moon at 3:17 p.m. EDT today (June 5), but only if the company pursues ...

The Resilience spacecraft went dark during its landing attempt on June 5, and likely hit the moon too fast. The company will ...

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

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

Japan is lining up another shot at the moon for 2025, when it plans to launch a rover to the moon's south pole, in hopes of drilling and sampling potential sources of lunar water.

Japan now hopes to make the world's first "pinpoint landing" on the moon early Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between ...

The “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer landed on the lunar surface, but the mission may end prematurely since its solar cell is not generating electricity, Japan’s space agency said.

Japan's space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit ... including whether it successfully made a "pinpoint landing" on the Moon Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Tokyo. Japan Aerospace ...

TOKYO, Japan — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing ...

The “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer landed on the lunar surface, but the mission may end prematurely since its solar cell is not generating electricity, Japan’s space agency said.

TOKYO, Japan — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing ...