Japan's private Resilience lunar lander captured a nice photo of the moon's south polar region. The probe is gearing up for a ...

A third private moon lander is getting closer to touchdown on Earth's only satellite this summer after Japan-based company ispace said its robotic mission is now orbiting the Moon.

"Hello from lunar orbit!" the company said in a post on X.

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the moon has once again become a ...

as the Japanese company ispace has entered lunar orbit with its Resilience lander. Launched on January 15, the lander has taken a slow but fuel-efficient path to the moon, and is now making ...

A successful landing would be the second for Japan, whose national space agency put a spacecraft called SLIM ("Smart Lander for Investigating Moon') down in January 2024. Resilience is carrying ...

A privately developed Japanese lunar lander has successfully entered orbit around the moon, Tokyo-based ispace announced on Wednesday, marking a key step ahead of its planned landing attempt in ...

Japanese space company ispace has a mission that has slowly made its way to lunar space, and in the coming weeks will attempt to land on the Moon. There’s a crucial event ahead of that, and it ...

Japan’s 1st moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM ...

Taking a slightly longer journey to the Moon, Japan’s ispace lunar lander named Resilience ... If the Resilience lander survives the landing, it will deliver a micro rover named Tenacious ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown. Tokyo-based ispace said Wednesday morning its Resilience lander entered lunar ...