A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

A third private moon lander is getting closer to touchdown on Earth's only satellite this summer after Japan-based company ispace said its robotic mission is now orbiting the Moon. The ispace ...

The lander, named Resilience, was trying to land on the moon's Mare Frigoris, also called the Sea of Cold, when it failed.

On February 3, 1966, an inflatable ball bounced across the surface of the Moon. Inside was Luna 9, the first spacecraft to land softly on another world. After coming to rest, the Soviet Union’s lander ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander has reached the moon, ... Five nations have made successful soft landings in the past — the then-Soviet Union, the United States, China, India and, ...

When the lander got down within about 30 km of the lunar surface, they tested the rangefinders again. Worryingly, there was some noise in the readings as the laser bounced off the Moon.

Bad software caused ispace’s first lunar lander to slam into the moon in 2023. Like the latest try, the problem occurred ...