Japan staked a claim among national space powers on Friday, as its SLIM spacecraft reached the lunar surface. The country’s SLIM lander launched in September and touched down on the lunar ...

Japan's robotic SLIM moon lander arrived in lunar orbit on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) as planned, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced. The spacecraft entered lunar orbit at 2:51 a.m. EDT ...

Shortly after Japan’s space agency became the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the surface of the moon, its scientists discovered the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM ...

Japan had wrecked at least two other landers before the SLIM, showing it's not so easy to hit an object traveling at 2,300 miles per hour, even if it's as big as the Moon. 22 comments 392 likes ...

SLIM landed on the moon at about 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time on Saturday (1520 GMT Friday). There was a tense wait for news after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's mission control initially said ...

Japan plans to launch a mini moon lander called SLIM and an X-ray space observatory atop a single rocket on Wednesday (Sept. 6), and you can watch it live.

Japan has become the fifth country in history to reach the moon when its spacecraft landed on the lunar surface. But an issue with the power supply means that the mission could be in jeopardy.

The unmanned Japanese spacecraft SLIM landed on the moon this weekend, marking a first for the East Asian nation, but problems with its solar panels appear to imperil the mission.

Space officials said they needed more time to analyze whether the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, achieved its mission priority of making a pinpoint landing on Saturday.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is celebrating the successful touchdown of the SLIM spacecraft on the moon's surface, even though the craft landed upside down.

Japan staked a claim among national space powers on Friday, as its SLIM spacecraft reached the lunar surface. The feat makes Japan the fifth country to land on the moon, following Russia (then the ...

SLIM landed on the moon at about 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time on Saturday (1520 GMT Friday). There was a tense wait for news after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's mission control initially said ...