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 ...

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent fast enough.

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

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 ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex-39A carrying the Nova-C lunar lander Athena as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload initiative from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral ...

The 15-foot-tall (4.6-meter-tall) Athena will have joined a lunar lander developed by another Texas-based company — Firefly Aerospace of Austin suburb Cedar Park — on the surface of the moon.

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

A defunct Soviet Kosmos 482 Venus lander from 1972 is predicted to crash into Earth's atmosphere around May 10, 2025. Learn why this tough capsule might survive reentry.

A JAPANESE spacecraft attempting a touchdown on the moon has crashed into the lunar surface, its company said. The unmanned Resilience moon lander, from private Japanese astro firm ispace, has been… ...

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

Relive IM-2 mission’s moon landing as it happened. A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US company this week ...