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 ...

In February 2024, Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus spacecraft became the first U.S. vehicle to make a soft landing on the Moon ...

A picture of the moon’s south pole was taken in May by Resilience, a robotic lander operated by the Japanese company Ispace ...

In January of this year, ispace’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS took off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Center 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

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.

Por MARCIA DUNNUna sonda lunar enviada por una empresa privada de Japón aparentemente se estrelló mientras intentaba un ...

A Japanese company had hoped that the second time would be the charm for putting a robotic lander on the moon. But it appears to have failed again.

A Japanese company plans to build a lunar city within 15 years, but first, it has to survive back-to-back mission failures.

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

After nearly six months in space, Ispace's Resilience lander will (hopefully) touch down on the lunar surface this week.

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

Japan's ispace lunar lander Resilience crashed during descent, marking the company’s second failed moon mission in two years.