Japan staked a claim among national space powers on Friday, as its SLIM spacecraft reached the lunar surface.

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 ...

Space Exploration Launches & Spacecraft Japan will launch SLIM moon lander and space telescope today after delays. Here's how to watch it live.

A Japanese spacecraft just took a huge step toward pulling off the nation's first-ever moon landing. Japan's robotic SLIM moon lander arrived in lunar orbit on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) as planned ...

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.

Japan ’s Jaxa space agency announced on Thursday the success of its Slim Moon spacecraft in its unprecedented “pinpoint” landing within 100m (328ft) of its intended target on the lunar surface.

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.

Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday.

Japan on Saturday became the world’s fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, as the space agency said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has made a soft landing on the lunar ...

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.

Japan successfully landed its SLIM spacecraft on the moon but the spacecraft is not generating solar power.