NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to ...

NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space successfully launched their Axiom-4 mission early Wednesday, sending four astronauts in what is ...

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

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

The NICER telescope developed a light leak in May 2023 when several thin thermal shields were damaged and let in sunlight ...

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

Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience ...

A few weeks after ispace's second Moon landing attempt ended in a crash, the Japanese company said it had already figured out the problem: the Resilience lander couldn't tell where it was in position ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India and Japan. And only the U.S. has put astronauts on the moon, ...