Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when the Smart ... the probe landed in the target zone. While most previous probes have used landing zones about 10 kilometers (six ...

Japan's SLIM lunar lander tipped over on touchdown, but still captured imagery of the moon while demonstrating high-precision ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

Japan’s attempts to become ... These other two are still en route to the Moon. Sadly, the OMOTENASHI lander was the only one planned for a controlled landing. A shot of the lunar surface.

Japan's SLIM lander successfully reached the lunar surface on Friday, Jan. 19, but problems with its solar cells mean it could be dead on the moon within hours.

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

After the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) re-established contact with its Moon lander on Sunday ... have already achieved their pinpoint landing target of getting within 100m (330ft ...

SLIM, which was aiming to hit a very small target, is a lightweight ... A successful pinpoint landing by SLIM, especially on the moon, would raise Japan’s profile in the global space technology ...

Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned Moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned from its failed attempt nearly two years ago. In April 2023, the firm's first ...

The spacecraft touched down near a crater called Shioli — a Japanese female first ... in an interview before the landing. Traditionally, moon missions target areas a few kilometres wide ...

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

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 system ...