Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

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 ...

Japan now hopes to make the world's first "pinpoint landing" on the moon early Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

Japan's "Moon Sniper" mission blasted off Thursday as the country's space program looks to bounce back from a string of recent mishaps, weeks after India's historic lunar triumph.

Japan's lunar lander still powers away 3 months later. What to know about SLIM mission An image the spacecraft managed to beam back to Earth on Tuesday serves as a vital indication that the device ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

TOKYO, Japan — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing ...

Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon early Saturday when the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, SLIM, touched down on the lunar surface. But then operators said the craft ...

A private lunar lander from Japan descended toward a touchdown on the moon Friday, but its fate was unknown as flight controllers scrambled to figure out what had happened. The moon landing ...

Japan too celebrated the harvest moon with a "Moon Viewing Festival." Millions of Japanese came out to gaze skyward, to dance and feast in honor of harvest home. Some remembered that in ...