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

When Frank Sinatra popularized “Fly Me to the Moon,” he was probably envisioning a trip up on NASA’s Apollo Lunar Module, which to date is the only lander to deposit humans on the rocky ...

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.

Last August, Russia’s first post-Soviet lunar lander, Luna-25, crashed into the Moon during a pre-landing maneuver.

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

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 ...

Resilience, a lunar lander built and operated by the Japanese company ispace, was part of the Hakuto-R Mission to deploy a "Moonhouse," a tiny colorful art piece, on the moon, while also exploring ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. Related video above: SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas explodes ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. Related video above: SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas explodes ...