It’s hard to land on the moon, technically. We know it’s not easy. It’s not something that everyone can do.” These words of ...

The lander carried six payloads, including an 11-lb. microrover named Tenacious, built by ispace's Luxembourg division. The ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

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., ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after ispace’s lander ...

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander ...

Plans had called for the 2.3-metre resilience to beam back pictures within hours and for the lander to lower the piggybacking rover onto the lunar surface this weekend.Made of carbon fiber ...

Plans had called for the 7.5-foot (2.3-meter) Resilience to beam back pictures within hours and for the lander to lower the piggybacking rover onto the lunar surface this weekend.

People await an update on ispace's private lunar lander Friday in Tokyo. The company's lander later crashed into the moon. (Photo: Kyodo News via AP) Resilience was targeting the top of the moon ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.