In an extremely unfortunate twist, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) appears to have landed on its nose, meaning it's now upside down on the lunar surface. An image snapped by ...

While Japan has technically become the fifth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, following the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and India, its lander didn ...

Japan's Moon lander ended up on its nose when it made ... main engine affected the landing attitude of the spacecraft," the Japanese space agency Jaxa said in a statement. It seems one of the ...

A Japanese company hoping to carry out a rare private Moon landing says it is likely its lunar lander crashed on the surface. Communication was lost with Hakuto-R moments before it was due to ...

As the Japanese Space Agency put it: "Operations resumed!" After the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) re-established contact with its Moon lander on Sunday night, the craft started to ...

Anime has been big in the West ever since the days of “Sailor Moon” and “Speed Racer,” but these days, the Japanese art form ...

The HAKUTO-R M1 lunar lander appeared to be descending to the moon as planned ... A baseball-sized "transformable" robot from the Japanese space agency, JAXA, was also on board, according to ...

In summary, the much-hyped private trip to the Moon, known as the "dearMoon" mission, was cancelled due to uncertainties in the development timeline and the lack of a clear schedule certainty.

It’s that time of the year when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, according to ancient Chinese belief. The Mid-Autumn ...

For several decades after the Apollo landings, Earth left the Moon alone. Then a wave of uncrewed missions started in 2008-09 when Indian, Chinese and Japanese spacecraft reached the lunar surface.

Japanese telecommunications giants Nippon Telegraph and KDDI Corp. are venturing into space. They plan to build high-speed wireless networks in the stratosphere to link the Earth and the moon.