Japanese firm ispace's Resilience lander is thought to have crashed after the company said it lost communication with the spacecraft as it approached the lunar surface. The Tokyo-based firm was vying ...

Japanese firm ispace is set to make its second attempt to land on the moon, potentially becoming Asia's first private company ...

This week, uncover the fate of the latest lunar lander to attempt touchdown on the moon’s surface, see a tower of worms, revisit the Dead Sea Scrolls’ age, and more.

This was the aerospace firm Ispace's second attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon. A third will follow in 2027.

The failed lunar mission follows ispace’s first attempt in 2023, which also ended with a bang. That craft, the Hakuto-R lunar ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

S/ Hakamada Takeshi/ After we lost connection with the lander, we attempted to reboot the lander, but we could not ...

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

The private Japanese spacecraft "Resilience" has seemingly been destroyed in a "hard landing" on the moon on Thursday. The ...

Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the moon’s surface during its lunar touchdown ...

A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...