LRO and Chandrayaan-2 captured debris of Japan’s crashed moon lander Rangefinder failure led to Resilience’s uncontrolled high-speed descent ispace confirms crash cause and plans future missions with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...

On June 5, a lander called Resilience was supposed to touch down in the Mare Frigoris region of the Moon, delivering, among other things, the continent's first-ever lunar rover.

The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side's northern ...

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini rover.

The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side’s ...

If all went well, the lander would touch down near the center of Mare Frigoris, a lunar sea near the Moon's north pole. But all did not go well.

The lander, named Resilience, was meant to touch down early morning Japan time near the center of the Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) in the moon’s northern hemisphere, as part of Mission 2 under ...