A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to ...

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

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent ...

The Resilience lander is carrying a small rover, named Tenacious, to Mare Frigoris, located in the Moon’s far northern ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure ...

A Japanese private lunar lander, Resilience, faced communication loss during its moon landing attempt. Ispace confirmed the lander departed lunar orbit. Contact was lost during the descent.

TOKYO—Japan’s hopes of achieving its first soft landing on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission ...

After losing contact with it for several hours, a privately owned Japanese company said its lunar lander had crashed into the surface of moon in what the company, ispace, confirmed was a failed lunar ...

A Japanese company had hoped that the second ... agency’s efforts to tap into entrepreneurial companies for cheaper moon missions. It is currently scheduled for 2027. “We want to keep talking ...