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

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.

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

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 ...

NASA’s orbiter snapped crisp images of where a private spacecraft crashed, revealing telltale marks of disturbed lunar soil.

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

If all goes well, the lunar lander will touch down near the Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) in the moon’s northern hemisphere. And so far, ispace’s CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada is quite ...

A malfunction in a laser navigation tool led to the crash of a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has taken a clear image showing the crash site of Japan’s Resilience moon lander, built by Tokyo-based company ispace. The lander tried to touch down on June ...