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

On February 3, 1966, an inflatable ball bounced across the surface of the Moon. Inside was Luna 9, the first spacecraft to land softly on another world. After coming to rest, the Soviet Union’s lander ...

The lander, named Resilience, was trying to land on the moon's Mare Frigoris, also called the Sea of Cold, when it failed.

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent fast enough.

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander has reached the moon, ... Five nations have made successful soft landings in the past — the then-Soviet Union, the United States, China, India and, ...

Japan last year became the world’s fifth country to achieve a soft lunar landing after the former Soviet Union, the U.S., China and India, when the national Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

The 15-foot-tall (4.6-meter-tall) Athena will have joined a lunar lander developed by another Texas-based company — Firefly Aerospace of Austin suburb Cedar Park — on the surface of the moon.