A private lunar lander from Japan fell silent while descending to the moon with a mini rover Friday and its fate was unknown.

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace is closing in on the moon, aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored ...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the moon's ...

A Japanese company had hoped that the second time would be the charm for putting a robotic lander on the moon. But it appears to have failed again.

Japan's ispace lunar lander Resilience crashed during descent, marking the company’s second failed moon mission in two years.

ispace U.S. WASHINGTON — A change in engines will cause the launch of a lunar lander being built for a NASA-funded mission to slip from 2026 to 2027. In a May 9 statement, ispace U.S., the ...

The lander's optical navigation system used photos collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) at an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers). This LRO imagery "could not accurately ...